educate girls

Educate Girls' founder, Safeena Husain's Magsaysay Award win is 18 years in the making. Through projects like Pragati and Vidya, the NGO is changing the lived realities of girls and women who have been cut off from the education system in India.

In 2007, Safeena Husain began with 50 Rajasthan villages. Today, Educate Girls has enrolled 1.4M girls in 30,000 villages and is the first Indian NGO to win Magsaysay.

An initiative by Naandi Foundation, ‘Toofaan Games’ are helping 2 lakh girls across the country grow - both at school and in life.

Sovni isn’t the only girl in the village whose family had a resistant mindset towards education for girls. For the longest time, villagers felt that educating a girl would have no long-term benefit for her family.

Educate Girls implemented the world’s first Development Impact Bond (DIB) in the education sector, also India’s first-ever DIB to reach out to 7,300 children.

Bengaluru-based DEFY Project's unique fellowships will let young women pursue cherished interests for a year, monthly stipend and expert mentorship in hand!

This National Day of the Girl Child, let’s get inspired by the possibilities visible in these pictures, challenge the stereotypes and mind-sets that keep girls out of school, and pledge to end gender disparity in education.