Paving the way for higher education for girls

Pooja, Pinki and Hemanti are the first few girls to complete school till Class 10. All hail from the remote village of Rajpura of the Sankh Panchayat in Jharkhand. Girl children find it difficult to access higher education past 8th standard in this village. The nearest school is 15 km away and the commute is difficult as well. Children have to walk through 3km of dense forest and the rest is covered via transportation to reach a school at Gawan. Until 2018, no girls studied past 8th standard in the village. In 2018, Pooja’s father suffered a paralytic attack and their family lost little of the income he used to earn from collecting Dhibra(Mica) to sustain the basic minimal needs of the family. In order to survive Pooja quit her education and started collecting Dhibra with her mother to sustain the family

As a member of Bal Manch, Rajpura, Pooja shared her situation in a meeting. Subsequently, a Jago foundation volunteer visited their house and motivated her mother to re-enroll Pooja in the school. The Jago team members also understood the family’s financial situation and gave them a scholarship of ₹ 1000 per month under their RMI initiative

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