Help educate the children of migrant workers and daily wagers by supporting this social cause

Durga Devi Charitable Trust (DDCT), Rajasthan partnered with a local NGO – Rural Connextion Foundation (RCF) and started a school ‘First Step Academy’ (FSA) right in the slum of Jawahar Nagar in Jaipur for the children of migrant workers and daily wagers. 

A survey done by them revealed that 70,000 plus families live here in most unhygienic conditions. Children don’t go to school. Most of them start rag picking at young age; some work in nearby hotels; young girls are doing cleaning jobs in the houses. The idea was to free them from this vicious circle by enabling them through education. 60 Children between the age group of 5 – 13 years were enrolled in the school for Primary education. Out of which 30-40 kids are regular in the school.

The project aims to educate children, encourage school dropouts to complete their primary education, enable children through education, prevent them becoming child laborers and keeps them away from bad practices. It also wants to encourage the girl child to study who are otherwise busy taking care of the younger siblings and supporting the household chores, while the parents are away for work by providing basic literacy to the community as well as train women and youth by sensitizing them about health and cleanliness.

All this was done by creating a center for learning right in the community. After 6 months experience of working on this project, it was realized that there is need to scale up this effort and reach out to more children, youth and women.

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DDCT plans to open 3 more similar centers in the community along with 1 main center across the road with better facilities. Children who are regular in the community school can start coming to the main center for learning. Skill training programs will be conducted at this center for unemployed youth after school. 

Although the total cost of this project is nearly 43 lacs, every little bit counts and can create a big impact. 

We would encourage you to visit https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/richaspledge and support this campaign by donating and also by sharing this campaign on Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter etc.  

Source: Ketto.org

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