Woman development and empowerment is a key requirement for the growth of any society. And education is that can make that possible. But unfortunately, in rural areas of India, which comprises a very large part of India's population, due to poverty, children are not able to go to school. Woman and kids work in fields at very low wages. Mostly the work from woman and children comes free with the employed man labour. And in such scenario, even the daily school meal scheme is unable to attract poor kids to school. Over that the corruption level in the system which leaks most of fund to the corrupt officials makes it worse.
We all are aware of this problem. Talking about this on this forum won’t help at all. We should take some action. We all have some links to village, our neighbours, distant relatives and friends can coordinate in this. If each one of us supports one girl child, give her fees and basic monthly expense that her family will otherwise get by putting her in some child employment, it will really make a difference. And in long term, we can make a informal group of such girls who will themselves got o the families and will motivate and pursue the parents of girls to send them to school. An amount of 2000/- may not be large for we living in the cities, working on our laptops and spending 500 for a lunch. But that money is enough for a month’s expense to a family in a village. So we, if cumulatively support such group, things will really take shape. There are NGOs but they also have limitations and again no one works for free. So it will be better if we try implementing this at personal level, giving few hours a week to work towards this. At very minimum, we can at least support the poor families in our vicinity, be it the domestic help working at your home or a peon in your office. We don't need to go too far to find a poor family.
We all are aware of this problem. Talking about this on this forum won’t help at all. We should take some action. We all have some links to village, our neighbours, distant relatives and friends can coordinate in this. If each one of us supports one girl child, give her fees and basic monthly expense that her family will otherwise get by putting her in some child employment, it will really make a difference. And in long term, we can make a informal group of such girls who will themselves got o the families and will motivate and pursue the parents of girls to send them to school. An amount of 2000/- may not be large for we living in the cities, working on our laptops and spending 500 for a lunch. But that money is enough for a month’s expense to a family in a village. So we, if cumulatively support such group, things will really take shape. There are NGOs but they also have limitations and again no one works for free. So it will be better if we try implementing this at personal level, giving few hours a week to work towards this. At very minimum, we can at least support the poor families in our vicinity, be it the domestic help working at your home or a peon in your office. We don't need to go too far to find a poor family.
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