Provide Bicycles for Poor Students in India
Help Students Education in India
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Summary
Our project is providing 300 bicycles and shoes to 300 students --150 boys and 150 girls--to help them go to school in poor coastal areas of Kerala, India.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Students of poor coastal areas of Kerala, India, need to go to school in remote villages. Areas are steeped in poverty and at the mercy of repeated sea erosion . School is too far from villages to walk each day barefoot with heavy bags of books, making school attendance difficult to the point of jeopardizing students’ future. Bicycles will have a strong impact by helping poor boys and girls go to school regularly. Students will own their bike after completing school.
Activities
Buying and distributing 300 bicycles: 150 Herald Thriller bikes for boys; 150 Lady Bird bikes for girls. Students contribute Rs500 each (US$12). Project will ensure qualitative changes in people’s life and enhance village integrated development.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $8,843
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $16,646
Total Funding Goal: $25,490
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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
By helping 300 poor students (50% boys; 50% girls) finish high school and own a bicycle after graduation, the project will provide access to basic education to all the poor students in the selected area and village.
Project Message
The program for the students, irrespective of caste and creed, will help raise the educational standard of the people as well as the income of the families.
- R. Thomas Parathara, General Manager of beneficiary school
Who is Running This Project
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Claudine and Bernard Dussert
President and Treasurer
Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity, Inc
8617 Irvington Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland 20817-3603
United States
13015305416
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity, Inc
Mary Mother of Peace-Medjugorje Charity
8617 Irvington Avenue
Bethesda,
MD
20817
United States
1 301 530 5416
http://www.mmpcharity.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
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India
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Children.
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 March 30, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 5, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Let's get 100 more bikes in 2009!
By Dr. Claudine Dussert - President, Mary Mother of Peace M. Charity, March 30, 2009 11:32 AM
Thank to your generous support, the “Bicycles for Poor Students” project proposed for the coastal areas of Kerala near Azheekal has started successfully in 2007 and progressed well in 2008 (see previous updates). In 2009, we need at least 100 additional bikes to help more boys and girls go to school by providing each one of them with a bicycle. Budget: at least US$ 9,000 for 2009. Your gift will give help and hope to these poor children and their struggling families for a good cause: education. Thank you for your generosity in these difficult times.
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