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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 265,000 girls aged between six and 14 by 2027.

CHALLENGE

In India, over 4 million girls aged between six and 14 fail to show up at school every day. That’s one of the highest out-of-school rates in the world. The reasons behind this are many, ranging from deeply entrenched social and cultural norms, to economic factors and lack of family support.

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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 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 all children improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy.

In every 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.

IMPACT

Educate Girls has consistently achieved impressive enrolment and learning outcomes, backed by a proven, replicable and codified model.

1.4M

GIRLS

mobilised for enrolment in 4 States since 2007

93
%

RETENTION RATE

COVID-19 EMERGENCY SUPPORT

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Educate Girls provided assistance to vulnerable rural households by purchasing and distributing grocery and hygiene kits. The organisation leveraged its network of community volunteers and field staff. Our grant was part of a match-funding campaign that raised US$2M, allowing 115,000 households to be reached with relief kits.

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