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| Founded | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Safeena Husain |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Focus | Girls’ Education |
| Location | |
Area served | Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Method | Partnership with the Government and communities to improve access to primary education for children. |
Key people | Safeena Husain |
Volunteers | 13,000+ |
| Website | www |
Educate Girls is a non-profit organization in India, established in 2007, founded by Safeena Husain, that works towards girls' education in India's rural and educationally backward areas by mobilising communities.[1][2][3]
It currently operates in over 13,000 villages in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.[4] By leveraging the Government's existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enrol and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys).[5][6] Since its inception in 2007, the organization has reached over 6.7 million total beneficiaries, and has helped mobilise communities to enrol close to 380,000 out-of-school girls in school.[7]
- ^ Novel project may improve prospects of girl child education The Hindu, Jun 26, 2011
- ^ "Educate Girls Organisation: A Developmental Imperative for Future". www.learningroutes.in. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ When Girls Returned to the Classroom India Today, December 15, 2014
- ^ How India’s First Development Impact Bond Transformed the Lives of over 7000 Rural Kids
- ^ "Dr. Shamika Ravi director of Research brookings India congratulates Educate girls". www.devdiscourse.com. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "In Rajasthan, this NGO is getting boys campaign for girls education". Firstpost. April 17, 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "When girls returned to the classroom". India Today. December 5, 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2019.