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Creator: Isha Education | NGO:Isha Education

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Isha Vidhya's English-medium schools provide high quality school education to rural children who cannot otherwise access or afford it. They adopt a nurturing & holistic approach to education, helping children realize their full potential.

Your donation will go 100% towards creating critical infrastructure like classrooms, furniture & fittings, academic learning materials, science lab equipments & digital contents for the 8 Isha Vidhya rural schools situated in Tamil Nadu, India.

What is the current state of Rural Education in India?

Despite considerable economic progress in India in the last couple of decades, poverty has continued to pervade rural areas. Children in rural areas have been denied access to proper education with schools lacking basic facilities, teachers being unmotivated and frequently absent. Even those who eventually make it through twelve years of schooling graduate lacking even basic skills, making it impossible to seek gainful employment or pursue higher education.

How can Isha Vidhya help improve the situation?

Education is the only ladder that we could provide to raise these underprivileged rural children out of poverty. For most of these children their only good meal of the day is at school. Many learn how to use a toilet and other aspects of personal hygiene only at school. The school transforms almost every aspect of a child's life & parental attitudes to education as well, while preserving and enhancing awareness of their local culture.

Isha Vidhya schools is also be a base to intervene in Govt. schools nearby to enhance the quality of education in these Govt. schools as well.

Sharing by a Parent
“My husband is no more. I work as an agricultural labourer. The scholarship program has changed my daughter's life. My family and I are so happy to see my daughter studying in an English-medium school!” - Mrs. Baby, parent of S.Dhanusiya Preethi, Parent of an Isha Vidhya school student

We need funds for building classrooms which cost Rs.7.5 lakhs each in 6 of our schools. You can donate Rs. 1100 for one sq.ft. (out of 690 sq.ft. per classroom) or multiples thereof.

Donors contributing more than a lakh, will be acknowledged by displaying their names on a Honour Board outside the new classroom(s).

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Please view a short video of Isha Vidhya at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkMmCbiLWr4&feature=youtu.be

Please visit www.ishavidhya.org for more information or contact us at give.india@ishavidhya.org. Thank you for your generous support.

Please note that minimum donations by cheque is Rs.535 (500 + 7% charges for Give India).

Mission/Vision

"As a part of Isha’s social outreach programs, Isha Vidhya rural schools have been started in villages (under the umbrella of Isha Education, established in 2005) to provide high quality school education to underprivileged rural children who cannot otherwise access or afford it. Isha Vidhya aims to provide high quality school education to rural children who cannot otherwise afford it. Isha Vidhya schools • take education beyond literacy and rudimentary skills • strive to make children fluent in English and adept in computer skills • adopt a nurturing approach to education, helping children realize their full potential • actively promote education of female children • increase educational awareness in rural communities • preserve village identities and culture. • equip rural youth with skills to rise above the ‘hopeless’ situation they often find themselves in, empowering them to pursue higher studies or gainful employment "

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