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We believe education is an empowerment tool that through its cascading effect can help
India overcome majority of its social challenges. Our focus therefore has been on strategic educational interventions such as vocational education and livelihood training for the economically and socially weaker sections and education of the girl child. |
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The Mahindra Group CSR activities in the areas of education are mainly undertaken
by KCMET. |
| Project Nanhi Kali |
| Along with the responsibility to educate the girl child, comes the power to transform the future. Education of girls can affect a virtuous cycle that yields multitudinal benefits for the girls, their families, the society and the economy at large. |
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In most cases; a girl who is educated will be aware of child rights, hence will fight against child marriage and child slavery. A woman who is educated will be a driving force behind her family's well-being - both economic and social; an educated wife will be a co-earner and will never ignore family planning; an educated mother will seek medical care, adopt improved sanitation practices and ensure that her children are healthier and better nourished; and as important if not more, she will inspire her child, girl or boy,
to go to school. |
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At Mahindra, our commitment to this cause has been unwavering. Testimony is our 16-year long association
with Nanhi Kali Project, the flagship program of the K.C. Mahindra Education Trust (KCMET), which supports the education of disadvantaged girl child. |
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| Even the World Bank has acknowledged that there is no investment more effective for achieving the millennium development goals than educating girls. |
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| Presently the Mahindra Group independently sponsors the education of 29,100 girls in low-literacy urban, rural and tribal parts of India. Through this sponsorship the girls receive not only round-the-year academic support that empowers them to study in school but also material support in the form of uniforms, clothes, school bags, shoes, etc to enable them to go to school with dignity. |
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| This coupled with the support from other corporate donors helped us reach a step closer to our
goal of sponsoring 100,000 girls. Project Nanhi Kali now supports the education of over 70,096
underprivileged girl children, in poor urban, rural and tribal communities across eight states of India. The outreach of this initiative included AP, Chattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, MH, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & Rajasthan. |
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| KCMET regularly monitors the 21 NGOs that they work with, giving technical inputs wherever
required to ensure that quality education is being imparted to all the Nanhi Kalis. Other corporate
donors include Capgemini, HPCL, J&J, D&B etc. |
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| Key Impacts |
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30 % increase in learning outcomes in the urban slums of Mumbai and Hyderabad. |
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Nanhi Kali Varsha Watti, stood 2nd at the Grade 5 district level board exams in Chhattisgarh. Plus 27 other Nanhi Kalis made it to the top ten merit list. |
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8 Nanhi Kalis were selected for interaction with the US First Lady Michelle Obama in Delhi on the 8th November 2010. |
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Curtailed drop-out rates of girls by 10% within the project areas. |
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