14/09/2017
For the past month and a half, the 50 girls who are being sponsored by IPHD have been going to school and working hard. Last week, we learned that 19 of our girls were going to be dropped from school because they did not have Aadhar Cards (Indian ID cards) -- as they were born in the village and never received birth certificates, and the government school teacher could not enroll them without official documents proving their Indian citizenship. Our education advocates Rukiya and Leela have been working tirelessly for the past week to get those 19 girls ID cards, but the process is very complicated. Ten girls still do not have their ID cards, and the government enrollment deadline is quickly approaching next week. Today, Leela, Rukiya, IPHD Director Madhu Vaishnav and our Girls' Education intern Olivia Arnold went to the house of Bhikamkor's Sarpanch (mayor) with our girls to deliver a letter urging him to immediately issue birth certificates for these 10 girls. Unfortunately, we were told that the Sarpanch was not home. We left the letter at his home and will continue to do everything we can to make sure these girls get enrolled.
