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IIMPACT
Gurgaon/Haryana, India
IIMPACT is a registered charity established in 2003 with its focus on girl child education., an activity that has the highest social multiplier and fills a huge unmet need in India. To start with, the group established 20 village based single teacher schools in 20 villages of Rajasthan, in areas with chronic female illiteracy. This first step covered 600 out-of-school girls, belonging to poor sections of society. Over the last 7 years, IIMPACT has established a network of some 550 learning centers in the remotest of villages (where education is an alien concept), that accommodate over 17,000 girl students, across seven states. These young girls were not likely to receive any education if it were not for our intervention. Apart from setting up these learning centers, IIMPACT has also taken it upon itself to sensitize parents and other community members to the need to enroll and keep the girls in these Learning Centres. The girls interact with trained teachers, who are successfully awakening the streak of curiosity in their students, and are helping build a solid foundation for learning. After what, at times, has been a challenging journey, IIMPACT can safely say that it is now being perceived as an agent of change amongst village communities. From what could only have been defined as a feudal existence and mindset, we are proud to now observe a change in men’s attitudes towards education for their daughters. Mothers and other women in these communities are also now expressing a great desire to learn. Please visit our website-www.iimpact.net post a comment and join the IIMPACT family.
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Current Projects
IIMPACT provides educational opportunity to girls, from socially and economically disadvantaged communities of India, who traditionally have no acesss to schooling. Learning Centres providing education to underprivileged girls in India are currently running in the following areas:
Rajasthan
IIMPACT currently runs 120 Learning Centres in 79 villages in Alwar District. The area is characterized by social and economic backwardness but has a large number of women’s Self Help Groups who have benefited from micro credit. IIMPACT enlists the support of these Self Help Groups to promote the importance of education and has ended up enrolling a large number of marginalized girls in their Learning Centres.
We have in addition recently introduced 20 Learning Centres in Jaipur.
Uttar Pradesh
IIMPACT currently runs 92 Learning Centres in 84 villages in the Mehmoodabad Block of District Sitapur. An acute lack of access to schools nearby being the main reason for girls not going to school.
Ever since IIMPACT started Learning Centres in the area the local community’s favorable response has been overwhelming. Last year over 160 girls from IIMPACT Learning Centres passed their Class V exams with 1st division marks !
IIMPACT has in addition started 30 learning centers in 30 villages of Shravasti District. These centers will provide education to around 950 out of school girls in this neglected area which has a mere 18% female literacy rate. IIMPACT has selected the least developed block of Jamunaha block of to establish the learning center. The block has about 71 villages which are reeling under acute poverty. The number of out of school girls is very high in these villages.
30 learning centres have also been introduced in Ruesa block in Sitapur, UP. Girl child education is extremely low in this block where female literacy falls below 12% , the lowest in the country.
Jharkhand
IIMPACT currently runs 25 learning centres in the Bero block of Ranchi District. In this tribal, minority inhabited area out-of-school girls are the norm. There is very little or no access to female education because of the prevailing regional, social and gender discrepancies.
IIMPACT has recently introduced 30 Learning Centres in the tribal concentrated district of West Singhbhum.
Haryana
IIMPACT runs 40 Learning Centres in the Mewat region of Haryana. Access for education in Mewat has been a problem, especially for girls. The abysmally poor literacy rate here ranges from 1.76% to 2.13 %, being the lowest in the country.
Bihar
Kishanganj is one of the least female literate districts in the country where a mere 18% of the girls are educated. Lack of motivation on the part of the parents coupled with poor accessibility to the existing education schemes are the primary causes for the poor female literacy levels.
IIMPACT has introduced 30 Learning Centres in Kishanganj District, Bihar.
Orissa
IIMPACT started 20 learning centers in the tribal, hilly villages of District Gajapati in Orissa. This entire area is set in the most inaccessible mountainous terrain and represents very low female literacy rates. The schools are either completely absent in the tribal forest villages or are situated far away, making difficult for girls to easily access.
Being one of the most disadvantaged districts of the country, Gajapati district has to confront challenging tasks in improving quality of the life of the people.
West Bengal
IIMPACT has started 30 Learning Centres in 30 villages of the Diamond Harbor Block of South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal, approximately 40 kilometers from Kolkata.
Partner Needs
The vision of IIMPACT is to take the number of Learning Centres to 2,000 by the year 2014, which will directly benefit 60,000 girls from socially and economically disadvantaged communities and change the society in which they live.
Financial Needs
A 30-girls center costs $2000 to run for one year, or less than $70 per student per year.Centers are opened in clusters of 20, which implies a funding need of $ 40,000 to educate 1200 girls.
In Kind Needs
Teaching aids and materials appropriate for Grade 1-5 including books, exercise books, coloring books, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, color pencils, posters, flash cards, etc.Also solar lanterns.
Mission Statement
To mobilize and motivate non school going girls, between the ages of 6 and 14, from economically and socially disadvantaged rural areas of India, putting them firmly on the track of literacy.By doing so we hope to change attitudes and society around these girls. The longer they stay in school, the later they will get married and start bearing children. They will in turn have fewer babies whose hygiene, health and nutrition needs they will be able to take care of better.With an education they will be able to consider livelihood options which were not open to them before. They can contribute to the economic betterment of themselves and their families.