By Venkat Ramakrishnan | Project Leader
Gangadevi, a scholarship student at Coimbatore Isha Vidhya school, explains her difficulties:
“My father, an already married man, got my mentally challenged mother pregnant with me and abandoned us. I assumed responsibility of the house at an early age. Our neighbours consider us outcasts and have always subjected us to constant jibes and snubs. During the holidays, I work at a nearby farm where I earn INR 250 a day. While I was in 4th grade, I started observing people in the kitchen and taught myself some basic cooking skills. I get up at 4:30 AM every day, cook for my mother (she loves greens!), wash our clothes, and get ready for school.”
Ganga explained that the reason for her absence from school at one time had been on account of her mother, since Ganga had to bring her to the hospital for medical treatment. When asked about Isha Vidhya, Ganga recollects a holiday week from the previous year: “I missed my school so much that I cried incessantly for hours. Nobody around knew why! Will I ever be able to give back to Isha? I don’t know.”
When asked if she feels upset about living a life different from her peers, Ganga proudly asserts, “My mother gave birth to me. It’s my privilege to take care of her.”
Only because of donors like you, Ganga is able to take care of her mother and we are able to take care of Ganga.
We take this occasion to let you know that on July 18th, Isha Vidhya is participating in the Globalgiving campaign to raise funds for the girl children scholarships. We would encourage you to donate during that time, so that Isha Vidhya will get matching bonuses in addition to the scholarship amounts that you donate. Details are as follows:
Link to donate: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/empower-india-girl-students-through-education
Date and Time to donate:
USA Eastern (ET) : Thursday, July 18, 2019: 09:00:00 AM to 23:59:59 PM
USA Central (CT) : Thursday, July 18, 2019: 08:00:00 AM to 22:59:59 PM
USA Pacific (PT) : Thursday, July 18, 2019: 06:00:00 AM to 20:59:59 PM
India (IST) : Thursday, July 18, 2019 18:30:00 PM to Friday, July 19, 2019 09:29:59 AM
Donation option: Please choose the ‘Other amount’ option in the link specified above, and specify the amount that you wish to donate. For your information, the matching from GlobalGiving are as follows:
Donations $100 - $499 USD will be matched at 15%
Donations of $500 - $749 USD will be matched at 30%
Donations of $750 - $1,000 USD will be matched at 50%
Donations under $100 USD will not be matched
Donation above $1,000 USD will be matched on the first $1,000 at 50%
We request you to donate as much as comfortable for you, so that Isha Vidhya gets the highest matching percentages.
Funding of scholarships of rural girl children is pretty important, and we thank you for all the support you have shown as so far. We look forward for your continued patronage.
Thanks & Best Regards.
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