Project Kalapandhari Magas Vargiya and Adivasi Gramin Vikash Sanstha (KMAGVS)
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Total Amount Donated
$0
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Donation Goal
$27,915
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Target Goal
Campaign Story
About the project
Villages in Latur district face various challenges; one of the biggest challenges is that people don’t have livelihood opportunities, and families have to migrate to sugarcane farms for cultivation. Children have to leave their schools for 3 to 4 months and go with their parents. For higher classes, children have to travel very far, which is unsafe and causes a financial burden on the family. The rate of child marriage in the area is also 30-35%.
Making a difference
Through the support of CRY America project KMAGVS, the community has found hope to overcome these challenges. The project works directly to provide residential hostels and enrol children in school. The project also works towards strengthening community-based organizations and sensitizing stakeholders on child rights issues focusing on child marriage and child labor.
The way forward
● Enhance enrolment, retention, regularity and transition through community engagement
● Improve educational outcome achievements and results in board examinations
● Strengthen communities to protect children from child labor, child marriage, child sexual abuse, substance abuse and physical abuses
● Formation and strengthening of child collectives and adolescent collectives in the operational area
The way forward
2022 Plan Highlights
● Enhance enrolment, retention, regularity and transition through community engagement
● Improve educational outcome achievements
● Strengthen communities to protect children from child labor, child marriage, child sexual abuse, substance abuse and physical abuses
● Child protection mechanisms and structures will be fully functional at all levels in the project area as per norms and functioning effectively.
● Formation and strengthening of children’s collectives and adolescent collectives in the operational area.
2021 Grant Disbursed = $24,429
Project Impact
1,727
children were enrolled in residential hostels
99.26%
of girls were enrolled in school
594
community-based organizations members were sensitized
137
families were developed as role models for the prevention of child labor
61
children collectives were formed
Relentless efforts saved Rani from Child Marriage
Rani, a 16-year old girl from a low-income family in Latur, helps her parents to earn a living by working in agriculture fields. She completed her 10th in 2021, and after that, her family decided to get her married without her consent.
Rani is part of an adolescent group and shared her information about child marriage with the Anganwadi Worker. With the help of the project staff, the Anganwadi worker counseled Rani’s family and explained the ill effects of early marriage.
Rani’s mother remained adamant and kept telling the team that they didn’t have money to support her education and believed she was weak in her studies.
The Anganwadi worker and Project team member worked extensively at counselling her parents. At last her parents gave up on the relentless effort and got her admitted to class 11th in Shivaji Nagar School in Bittergaon this year.
Last Year’s Grant Disbursed : $24,429
Current Year’s Approved Grant
