girls education

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.

Suraj Bai Meena was born in a village near Ranthambore where it was unheard of for girls to pursue a career or education. Today, she is Ranthambore’s first woman naturalist. Watch this video to see her journey.

Anand Mahindra started Project Nanhi Kali in 1996 with a convention of empowering young girls and women through education.

What makes a girl drop out of school? Is it financial constraints, social pressures or patriarchy? It is all of this and much more, explain experts.

"My father sold his land to fund our education. He was among the more progressive men in the village who believed that his daughters should receive a proper education," says Zulikha Bano, the first woman lawyer from Ladakh's Balti Community.

Being forced to support her family’s meagre income with a job at an early age has not stopped 19-year-old Vaishnavi Kathelkar from pursuing her dreams and ambitions.

Shalini Munuswamy, who was rescued from bonded labour and given a chance to continue her education five years ago, has successfully graduated from high school and is all dreamy-eyed about going to college. The road ahead, however, isn’t that easy for her.