Alternative school for railway platform children
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Summary
Taking the school to the street - advocating for and working with children on issues such as child rights, health care, and nutrition.
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How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $3,502 was raised for this project.
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Received $3,502 from 1 donation from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
This project will affect around 400 marginalized children living on and around the railway station who have no access to school. The barriers to education for such children arise both from the external environment and from the children's own unique predicament of deprivation. These children are not merely out of school; the very concept of education is unknown to them.
Activities
To set up an extensive network of schools, vocational training programs, shelters, non-formal education centers, a crisis help-line, and scholarships with the aim to assist children in claiming their right to education.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $3,502
Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $3,502as of Jun 09 2004. The original project funding goal was $5,500.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Outcomes of this project are to make schooling a habit; motivate parents to take charge; make education attainable, useful, and enjoyable for every child; and make children conscious of the role of education in upward social mobility.
Project Message
If the child cannot come to the school, then the school must come to the child.
- Inderjit Khurana, Ruchika Social Service Organisation
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on September 15, 2006.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 21, 2003.
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