Literacy India - Learning Center for Girls

Project Brief: Literacy India has the objective of empowering underprivileged children belonging to lower income group communities with a broad based educational framework. Asha is helping to support a school in the Bhati Mines area of Delhi.
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Philadelphia
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Ankur Pariyani
Project Partner(s): Ena Lebel
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , LITERACY INDIA LEARNING CENTER , VILLAGE – BHATI KHURD,Near Sawan Public School, Radha Swami Satsang Gate 2,,
Delhi  110074
Tel:
Stewarding Chapter: Philadelphia
Dec 2011PhiladelphiaUSD 2000
Feb 2011PhiladelphiaUSD 5700

Total = $7700

Asha is supporting the annual salary for 5 teachers working at a school at the Bhati mines in Delhi. This school is focusing specifically on empowering women in the community.
Literacy India works to break the cycle of poverty by building on trust and awareness,
teaching about personal grooming and by providing role models. We have
endeavored to meet this objective through imparting higher secondary education and
by providing a platform to identify special creative skills. The children are nurtured
and encouraged to develop proactive creative experiences by way of workshops and
guidance by professionals in performing arts. Our activities and programs are geared
to lay special emphasis on the girl child and rural impoverished women.
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