Project Mala Secondary College Scholarships

Location:

Project Mala Schools at Guria Secondary School (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

Status:

Active

Duration:

September 2015 - 2020

Description and Impact:

WEF is collaborating with Project Mala to fund the Project Mala Secondary College Scholarships Program at the Guria Secondary School located near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. This scholarship program supports deserving students as they study in reputed learning programs with access to quality international education and access to training in English language skills.

¬ Under this scholarship WEF sponsors secondary school scholarships for tuition fee, health care and meal of 10 secondary and higher secondary school students.

¬ WEF made a total grant of $24000 to sponsor 24 secondary school students starting from October 2015 to November 2020.

The objective of this project is to educate marginalized students in India and break the cycle of generational poverty through education. These students come from one of the most underprivileged areas of areas of Mirzapur and Varanasi District of Uttar Pradesh state in India. This scholarship program supports deserving students as they study in reputed learning programs with access to quality international education and access to training in English language skills. WEF aims to bring change in the lives of these children and through them change in their communities. Through education proper health care and diet, these students will be agents of change in their vulnerable and disadvantaged community and eventually break the cycle of multi-generational poverty.

About Project Mala:

 Project Mala seeks out working children in remote villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India and gives them quality education in four R’s reading, writing, arithmetic and respect. Respect for others and the environment as well as self-respect in personal hygiene good manners. For more information, please visit: www.projectmala.org.uk