When a girl is compelled to drop out of school to get married, it isn’t just her who loses out on a future of upward mobility and better life conditions. The nation as a whole suffers. The education and empowerment of girls is a collective responsibility in a country like ours.
En-Light a Girl Child is helping more girls in India finish school and avoid early marriage through awareness and empowerment programs geared towards creating positive discrimination for girl students. Take a look at our Rajasthan Project Report Album to see just how:
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YOU can also help girls acquire the education they need to achieve their dreams through small interventions and acts of everyday heroism by changing the attitude of your community toward girls’ education, marriage and childbearing. Share your ideas with us using the hashtag #enlightagirlchild ! We are curating tweets, Facebook and Tumblr posts, Instagram images, and more!
Support En-Light a Girl Child by spreading the word. Visit us at http://www.enlightagirlchild.com/
Visit our Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/enlightgirlchild to learn more about our hashtag campaign!
Meet Tabassum: One of the Beneficiaries of En-Light a Girl Child's Bihar Project
1. This is Tabassum, from the Sahebpur Kamal
village in Bihar, India. Tabassum studies in
the 9th grade. Her father is a rickshaw puller.
Tabassum lives with her parents,
grandparents, six sisters and five brothers.
They have one kerosene lamp and 2
kerosene lit candles in their house to provide
illumination for all the members of the
household.
Tabassum was one of the 3003 girls who
received LED lamps through the En-Light a
Girl Child initiative. Now she has the flexibility
to study in her free time after sundown with
greater regularity and more motivation than
then using the dim illumination of the
kerosene lamps.
How can YOU help girls like Tabassum?
Write in using the hashtag #enlightagirlchild
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr!
Support En-Light a Girl Child by spreading
the word! Visit us at
http://www.enlightagirlchild.com/ and like our
Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/enlightagirlchild/ to
learn more about our initiatives!
