2014-2027
GETTING INDIAN GIRLS INTO CLASSROOMS
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
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.
GIRLS
mobilised for enrolment in 4 States since 2007
RETENTION RATE