2014-2027
GETTING INDIAN GIRLS INTO CLASSROOMS
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2014-2027
EDUCATE GIRLS
Educate Girls works to ensure every girl in the remotest parts of India is enrolled in school and learns well. From an initial pilot project of 50 schools in 2007, it currently operates in over 29,000 villages in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. We’ve been funding its unique approach since 2014, and are currently supporting their goal to enrol over 539,000 girls aged between six and 14 by 2027.
CHALLENGE
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ACTION
Educate Girls mobilises and supervises a huge base of community volunteers, called Team Balika, who work with members of the local communities to help identify, enrol and retain out-of-school girls.
Household visits and community outreach are at the heart of the organisation’s success. Its advanced analytics enable the targeting of villages with a higher concentration of out-of-school girls.
The organisation also taps into government existing resources to improve schools’ infrastructure, governance and teaching. It offers an interactive remedial education programme to help children in grades 3-8 improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy.
In selected upper primary school, Educate Girls facilitates the election of a Girls’ Council to give girls a voice, boost their confidence and build life skills, such as communication, leadership and problem-solving.
CHILDREN
with improved learning outcome in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
GIRLS
mobilised for enrolment in 4 States since 2007
RETENTION RATE
COVID-19 EMERGENCY SUPPORT
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3 Aug 2022
Lessons learned over a decade of grant-making
Philanthropy is all about collective action towards shared goals. This is why we want to share what we have learned during the last ten years, successes and bumps included.
30 May 2022
Empowering women through education
Here's a brief overview of how we, with our partners, are making a difference for girls and women across the globe, from pre-school to university.
6 Jul 2021
Our COVID-19 emergency support for India
To respond to the devastating wave of COVID-19 outbreak that is ravaging India, we are stepping up our support to the emergency response of two long-standing partners, Médecins Sans Frontières and Educate Girls.
18 Jan 2021
The predictive power of machine learning
Machine learning uses data, usually in large quantities, and statistical algorithms to predict something that isn’t known. The first article of our Driven By Data series explores how machine-learning models inform Educate Girls’ expansion strategy.
11 Jan 2021
Why we need data science
Our new series #Driven by Data will explore how data analytics is helping fix some of the world’s most pressing issues, improving the way development actors identify problems and design tailor-made interventions to address them.
26 Jun 2020
Education endures
The COVID-19 shutdowns have resulted in millions of children being out of school. School closures are likely to prove more than an interruption in the schooling of many girls and boys, putting an end to their education forever.
9 Mar 2020
Safeena Husain’s vision of equality
On the occasion of International Women’s day 2020, we asked Safeena Husain, founder and CEO of our partner organisation Educate Girls, to share her vision of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Read her exclusive interview.