Alternative school for railway platform children
Educate Children in India
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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.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $3,502 was raised for this project. |
Received $3,502 from 3 donations from people like:
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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 $3,502 as of Jun 9, 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
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
Organization
Ruchika Social Service Organisation
3731-A, Sriram Nagar,
Samantarapur, Old Town,
Bhubaneswar,
Orissa
751002
India
91-674-2532611
http://www.ruchika.org
Ruchika Social Service Organisation's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Alternative school for railway platform children |
 Helpline for Women: Project Specific Corpus Fund |
 Train Platform Schools for Children in India |
Where this Project is Located
Country
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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 December 17, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 21, 2003
Latest Update from the Field
Photos from the Train Platform Schools
By Inderjit Khurana - Secretary, Ruchika Social Service Organisation, September 15, 2006 06:20 PM
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