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Saving the Radiant Kids School

This is an urgent campaign to save the Radiant Kids school, a non-profit that gives an education to the children of poorest of the poor in Gurgaon, India.

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Saving the Radiant Kids School

Saving the Radiant Kids School

Saving the Radiant Kids School

Saving the Radiant Kids School

Saving the Radiant Kids School

This is an urgent campaign to save the Radiant Kids school, a non-profit that gives an education to the children of poorest of the poor in Gurgaon, India.

This is an urgent campaign to save the Radiant Kids school, a non-profit that gives an education to the children of poorest of the poor in Gurgaon, India.

This is an urgent campaign to save the Radiant Kids school, a non-profit that gives an education to the children of poorest of the poor in Gurgaon, India.

This is an urgent campaign to save the Radiant Kids school, a non-profit that gives an education to the children of poorest of the poor in Gurgaon, India.

Amardeep Kahlon
Amardeep Kahlon
Amardeep Kahlon
Amardeep Kahlon
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Gurgaon, India
$3,011 USD 34 backers
30% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Save the Radiant Kids School

Eco Lib Foundation (EcoLib) a registered NGO, which works through literacy, livelihood promotion & market linkages, for assisting kids that come from economically weaker sections of society, whose parents work as labors, domestic workers, security and support staff in both rural and urban settings. With this objective, Eco Lib has started “Radiant Kids” – its non-formal education and awareness center for underprivileged children in Gurgaon.

Its motto is “Together we shall overcome.” Radiant Kids has been established with the primary objective of providing basic education to all those children who have never gone to school or are out of school due to lack of facilities, poverty & frequent migration, etc. It also provides a creative and conducive platform by way of sports, karate, music, library,etc., not only for the holistic development of other underprivileged kids, but also to channelize their energy positively, as a buffer from the negative influences of their adverse circumstances.

I have created this campaign on behalf of the Radiant Kids School.  This school is run by Aparna Singh in Gurgaon to educate the children of the poorest of the poor.  She does this amazing job relying on her own funds and donations.  This week she lost her lease on the property she was renting to run the school.  As she is looking for a new property to rent, she found that the rents are out of her reach.  There are currently 115 children in the school ranging in age from 3 to 18.  They are equally divided between girls and boys in a 50-50 ratio.  A majority of these kids belong to the lower castes - they are children of rag pickers, day laborers, maids, auto-rockshaw drivers etc.  Without a project such as Radiant Kids, these children would be walking the streets or begging or getting into other trouble.  Aparnaa runs the school via the non-profit EcoLibFoundation.  

I am a resident of the community where Aparnaa lives and have just moved to India from Texas.  I have seen the kids from this school perform on stage and have purchased some of the handicrafts created by them.  My heart was touched by what Aparnaa is doing for these children.  I was also broken hearted, along with countless other residents in this community, to hear of the school closure.  We immediately mobilized and collected INR 28000 for her ($450) within one day!  However, that is not enough to save the school by renting another property.  Aparnaa needs $10,000 to sustain the school for the next year.

Where will the funds go?

All the donated funds will be utilized for the infrastructure including well- equipped library and computer lab, teachers salary, snacks for the kids and other supplies. If Aparnaa can raise the $10,000, she can run the school for a year and, in the meantime, find sustained corporate or social donations, to keep it going for many years beyond.

Please share this campaign with everyone you know within your "six degree" radius and ask them to share it further.  It is truly a noble cause.  If we can raise the money, it will be a changed world for these children.

FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN INDIA - important information:

Donors living in India may contribute directly to the Ecolib Foundation CURRENT account as follows:

Bank Details- Eco Lib Foundation
A/c no. 200998953696, IndusInd Bank,
Nawal Kishor Road, Lucknow, U. P.

(IFSC Code – INDB0000519,
MICR Code – 226234051)

You can see more information about the school at:

http://bit.ly/LApuBa

https://www.facebook.com/Ecolibfoundation

 

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