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Padho Muneera (Learn Muneera)

Four-year-old Muneera got pulled out of English school on her first day of kindergarten because elders of the family misunderstood her acting out nursery rhymes to be dance training.

Eight-year-old Muneera got pulled out of primary state school because that was as much education she needed to learn how to write letters from her marital home to her parents in the future.

Eleven-year-old Muneera trained herself to mend clothes to support her big family, because her father lost his job and she had seven younger siblings that needed to be fed.  Muneera had to grow up.

The story isn’t just Muneera’s, there are millions of Geeta’s, Nina’s, and Maria’s with similar stories, with little or no education, destined to receive the same prospects in life as their parents and grandparents.

 

Padhomuneera Fundraising – Educate, Empower, Elevate!

Join us in making education accessible! Every donation helps provide school supplies to children in need. Together, we can build a brighter future—one child at a time!
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Why we are doing this

In developed nations, it’s an established fact that education contributes greatly to growth, general economic progress, and better salaries. These changes are more, if not just as relevant in developing and under-developed countries.

Education, especially for girls in smaller towns and villages is a true investment with a high return as it leads to more economically stable, healthier, and empowered women, it also has a positive impact on family health, and helps discourage practices such as child marriage and infanticide.

Where we are doing this

We, of course, leading with our hearts, wanted Padho Muneera (Learn Muneera) to help children everywhere who are deprived of education. But to be able to provide the best support we can, we are starting in a place we are familiar with, and that we know needs our help. Yadgir in Karnataka, India is one of the places facing challenges of low school enrollment amongst girls and a high percentage of dropouts. The families based there largely support themselves by hard manual labour on minimal wages, with no medicinal or educational support for their children.

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Number of supporters

£13K

Fund raised

2400

Children Helped

250

Volunteers Worldwide

Our Team

How we are going to do it

With the progressive steps that the Indian government is taking to encourage children (especially girls) to go to school, the enrollment numbers have risen considerably over the last decade. However, the dropout numbers, especially girls in both primary and secondary school are still very high. We are hoping to provide assistance with small but consistent support to these groups of children through Partial or full funding of higher education for children who want to and have persisted with academic education through personal hardships Partial or full funding for practical skills courses for out-of-school adolescent girls. In addition to financial support, we are aiming to introduce awareness workshops for parents and teenagers to mitigate cultural, and social hurdles to children pursuing education We have a long road ahead of us and a lot of work to do. However, we already have volunteers, friends, and family who have very kindly agreed to donate their time to get this important work off the the ground. If you are interested, there are a lot of studies on what impacts children’s education, especially girls in vulnerable areas, i.e. http://www.cfr.org/education/works-girls-education/p6947
Happy girl posing with her new backpack filled with school supplies, ready to learn.
Empowered to learn: a new backpack full of possibilities.

Our Vision

Our vision With the progressive steps that the Indian government is taking to encourage children (especially girls) to go to school, the enrollment numbers have risen considerably over the last decade. However, the dropout numbers, especially girls in both primary and secondary school are still very high. We are hoping to provide assistance with small but consistent support to these groups of children through -Partial or full funding of higher education for children who want to and have persisted with academic education through personal hardships -Partial or full funding for practical skills courses for out-of-school adolescent girls.

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