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Donate for girl child education to help the future of India

We have heard this about a zillion times – If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community? But it falls on deaf ears most of the time. According to the Educational Statistics report released by MHRD in 2018, there is a wider disparity in literacy rates of males and females in rural India than in urban India. In urban India, the difference in literacy rate between males and females is 8.9 %, whereas, for rural India, it is 15.5 %. You can help decrease this rate! Would you help  donate for girl child education ? We fully know and understand how crucial education is for a girl child, and yet we don't take it seriously enough! This isn't a drawback for the girl child alone; it is, in fact, a disadvantage for the nation as a whole. Can you imagine what can be achieved just by educating a girl child? Educating a girl child has a positive spiral effect; it has a long-lasting impact on society and human development. Listing a few ...

The ‘Beti bachao beti padhao’ campaign

The ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ initiative was launched by Prime Minister Modi on January 22, 2015, in Haryana. Translating into ‘Save the Girl Child, Educate the Girl Child’, this program aimed to give young girls access to large-scale welfare services. It was devised to give the girl child access to survival, safety, and education while celebrating the girl child in an effort to fight India’s deep-rooted gender bias towards women. ‘ Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Yojana ’ is India’s most high profile and widespread campaign to empower the girl child. It is a program being run jointly by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. As per the census data of 2001, the child sex ratio in India (0-6 years) was a mere 927 girls per 1000 boys. This further declined in 2011 to a staggering 918 girls for every 1,000 boys. Addressing and improving this dwindling CSR is one of the principal intentions of this...