Alternative school for railway platform children

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Alternative school for railway platform children

Summary

Taking the school to the street - advocating for and working with children on issues such as child rights, health care, and nutrition. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $4,472 was raised for this project.

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: $4,472

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 $4,472. 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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Mrs Inderjit Khurana,
Secretary, Ruchika Social Service Organisation
G-6 Ganga Nagar
Unit-VI Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751001
India
91-674-2532611
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Ruchika Social Service Organisation
3731-A, Sriram Nagar,
Samantarapur, Old Town,
Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751002
India
91-674-2532611
http://www.ruchika.org

Learn more about Ruchika Social Service Organisation and the project team.