Results in Madurai: August 6th uniforms and notebooks for school children

News Courtesy: NABUUR.
Note: New Madurai just acted as a fund raising channel and
did not donate or did not do anything more than that.
We, from New Madurai thank Gopal, whose name
is not mentioned in this news from NABUUR.

The slums of Madurai
Despite India’s overall economic growth, many families are
still plagued by poverty. Employment in the slums is limited
to street vending or hard labour. In Madurai many children
 work from an early age. The need for immediate income
takes priority over getting a proper education. However, if
this ‘cycle’ continues, the population will remain poor and
marginal. Breaking this cycle will help the city and it’s people
to progress, making the future more promising for Madurai.

The Goal: Getting Children to School
The community is now working towards finding ways to
measure the number of children in school, or by helping to
design a campaign about the benefits of education.
To learn more about Madurai, click here

Compulsory Education Campaign in full swing
The volunteers and the community leaders in the slums of Madurai, participated in the Compulsory Education Campaign carried out in the city slums during the month of April and May.
This campaign was mainly conducted to find out the number of children in the slums, to motivate the dropouts and child labourers into the school and also to enrol the eligible children into the school. Parents were personally met during the campaign to convince them to send their children to school. When motivating the dropout children it was assured to support them to continue their education and to rejoin the school.

Findings
During the month of June, it was found that nearly hundred children need our support and it was worked out and informed in this village website by their facilitator Kristin.

Results: Uniforms and Notebooks for School Children
It was so that Selva(New Madurai Foundation Representative), a neighbour from USA came forward to circulate this information to many of his friends. One such friend Mr.Shankar, from Sneham in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India came forward to support the children. He promised to send Rs. 10,000/- for supporting the purchase of Uniform for 42 children and notebooks for 11 children and now he has extended Rs.3000/- more and so we are planning to get uniforms for 49 children and notebooks for 12 children totally supporting 61 children from various slums.

Madurai’s Local representative, James Rajasekaran informed that all arrangements have been done for the uniform and notebooks distribution to take place on 6th August by 5.00 p.m

Participate in the search of solutions for the children of Madurai!

The people from Madurai thank you for your help towards results!