Saving Children from Adult Exploitation:Operations

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Summary

Establish a boarding school for 100 boys and girls and 300 day scholars. This project provides for the ongoing operations of the school for one year. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

This school will be for the poorest children living in small villages where the only opportunities that come their way is work for the boys from age 5 and prostitution for girls from age 10. Their parents are so poor and so ignorant that they fall prey to exploiters, besides they need money for survival. The school will attempt to create an economic program to benefit the parents as well as give them rudimentary education.

Activities

Hire faculty and staff, implement boarding program, implement academic and vocational training program, purchase tools and equipment for vocational training program.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $400
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $99,600
Total Funding Goal: $100,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project aims to educate 400 young boys and girls a year and help pull them out of poverty and ignorance and equip them to deal with life on a more even playing field. Most importantly, we will be saving young girls from a life of prostituttion.

Project Message

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- M.K. Gandhi, Spiritual Leader of India Self Rule Movement

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Barbara Gee,
Volunteer
360 Grand Ave. #285
Oakland, California 94610
United States
(415) 307-4789
Email:

Project Sponsor

Barbara Gee

Organization

M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
University of Rochester
510 Wilson Commons
Rochester, New York 14627
United States
(585)276-3787
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org

Learn more about M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Education.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on April 09, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 29, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Sunanda Gandhi Memorial School

By Barbara Gee - Global Giving Project Contact, April 09, 2008 06:09 PM

Dear Supporters,

We are making progress on the Sunanda Gandhi Memorial School. 38 orphaned/abandoned children, ages 6-14, are currently being safely housed, cared for, and educated!

We appreciate your support.

Arun Gandhi
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