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Stories of Impact

Village Basilgarh, District Guna, Madhya Pradesh

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amta (name changed) is a class 9 student and travels 5 kilometres to school. She wants to

be a teacher someday. Mamta lost her father few months ago, which caused instability in

the family. Mamta’s mother, Priya, started thinking of putting her into the traditional family

occupation along with her sister. rough home visits, interactions with Mamta’s mother

and sister, and a key community person, the CRY workers convinced her family to let

Mamta continue her education. She says, ‘If the village didn’t have the activity centre,

I might not have had the courage to start my studies again as here a girl who passes

class 8 is usually put to work.’

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en receiving their certificates of completion of the computer course from NIIT.

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ommunity. e HCL grant gives that liberty

to work with the community in an in-depth

manner and for a long time, which helps

in planning and implementing the project

with a holistic approach and bringing the

desired result. e process of the Grant

helps in strengthening an organization’s

implementation strategy as well as ensuring

statutory compliance. e time-to-time

inputs and capacity building workshops

conducted by the HCL are also very helpful

in knowing the changes and amendments in

any law and policies.

The Impact of the HCL Grant

Rele

vance:

e Grant helped to reach

more than 500 children and identify 250

vulnerable adolescent girls who are at

risk, preventing them from entering the

commercial sex industry in the project year

2020–2021.

InnovatIon:

or the identification of

vulnerable girls, we developed six indicators

which could help us in early identification

of vulnerable girls and start engaging with

them from the very beginning.

ScalabIlIty/ReplIcabIlIty:

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main idea behind this project is to replicate

our existing strategies from 8 villages

to 20 villages with the Bedia community.

As a result, 20 CACs have been initiated

and engagement with the children has

been started.

SuStaInabIlIty:

Efforts are made to

include people from the Bedia community

in the implementing process. Out of 20

CAC teachers, 18 are from the Bedia

community and 6 of them are women.

IncluSIon:

To integrate the Bedia

community with the other communities in

their villages, efforts are made to include

children of other communities in the

CAC and the digital learning center.