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In this UP village, a school is willing to go out of the way for the girl child

This village houses ‘Project Mala’, a program run with the specific aim of eliminating child labour, by providing education, mid-day meals and healthcare facilities for children in this carpet weaving belt. For more news, visit us at:- http://www.scoonews.com/

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In this UP village, a school is willing to go out of the way for the girl child

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  1. In this UP village, a school is willing to go out of the way for the girl child www.scoonews.com/

  2. It is always a welcome change to discover pockets of India which for all reasons are ignored but shoot into the limelight due to the inspiring and trail blazing work done in the field of education. Come let’s discover another such pocket in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, just off the GT Road between Varanasi and Allahabad in a dusty little village called Guria. This is a traditional farming and carpet weaving village with most adults engaged in either of the 2 occupations.This village houses ‘Project Mala’, a program run with the specific aim of eliminating child labor, by providing education, mid-day meals and healthcare facilities for children in this carpet weaving belt.

  3. The school has a very unique approach of keeping the shadow of class, caste, societal, and sartorial pressures at bay. Primary school students are encouraged to be in their classrooms barefoot. They are also not referred to by their family names.

  4. This school is fast becoming the first choice of villagers who do not want to miss the opportunity to educate their children here. The school receives 500 applications for every 10 seats; however, the number of boy applicants exceeds girls.

  5. Some years ago when it was decided to open a nursery school for younger children, 300 boys lined up outside the school for admission and not a single girl child. The school then boldly decided to make the class only for girls.

  6. However, typical of an obscure village, retaining girls in school is as tough fight. Parents want to get them married post middle school. Another socio-geographical reality of the area is that parents are reluctant to send girls to school once they hit puberty fearing their safety, especially if they have to walk to school. The school also has a positive local economic impact as it assists the local carpenter’s earnings who make and maintain the school furniture. They mostly work in one part of the schoolyard. In fact, local tailors are also enlisted to make school uniforms and have a small workspace within the school itself like the carpenters.

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