India – Education and Economic Development Project

This project is being implemented by our partner, the Indian Gospel League, and in their recent report they share the following story to demonstrate how the project is helping the local community.

This is the story of Miss Kalaivani, a 13 year old girl. Her father died in an accident a year ago and after his death her mother was forced to work as a construction laborer to feed her three children including Miss Kalaivani.

Miss Kalaivani had low education and was unable to concentrate on her studies and so she stopped going to school. For the last year she has been working as child laborer along with her mother.

She was identified by one of our volunteers and brought to our community workers. Our community workers took efforts to meet with her mother and asked to admit Miss Kalaivani into school again. After two months of continuous efforts, Ms Kalaivani returned school. Now she is studying in 8th grade and attends our evening study center regularly. Our IGL-ORAF – Education and Economic Development Project help to helpless school dropouts in the target area.

ORAF has been funding this project since July 2008