Joint Women's Programme
Supporting Children's #PehliClass ๐
Dear Supporter,
Every Indian parent cherishes the memory. The new uniform. The lunchbox. The slightly too-big bag. The first day of School.
For most children, it happens. For thousands of children in the communities we work in, it doesn't. Not because their families don't want it - but because first generation students have learning gaps, somewhere in the system, a piece of paper is missing, a year was lost, a school's gate stayed shut.
The Joint Women's Programme has spent forty-eight years working alongside India's most vulnerable women and children. #PehliClass is our real impact campaign - and it is finite, focused and entirely measurable. We want to put children from underprivileged backgrounds into formal school, where they belong, on time.
Who we are doing this for
The children we serve are first-generation learners, dropouts, and children who have never set foot in a formal classroom - many of whom couldn't enter a government school because they are from poor marginalised families, were missing documentation: a Birth Certificate, an Aadhaar card, a Transfer Certificate, a Permanent Education Number, and most importantly learning gaps.
Some are six years old, knocking on the gate of a school that says they need paperwork their parents don't have. Some are twelve, never having been to school, and being told they are already too late. Others are adolescent girls forced to drop out because a family decided their younger brothers' education came first.
Without intervention, they fall further behind. Their families lose hope. The cycle continues.
The promise: one year, then a real classroom
Starting at our Mera Sahara Bridge Learning Centre in Nithari, every child stays for a maximum of one year. In that year, we close the academic gap, secure the documentation, and walk them through the gates of a government or private school - into their pehli formal class in a government or a private school on time.
Just โน1,600 a month - or โน19,000 for the year - covers everything it takes to bridge one child from out-of-school into a mainstream classroom.
A child's right to education is enshrined in our Constitution under the Right to Education Act. But for thousands of children, that right requires a hand to walk them across - past the learning gaps, missing paperwork, the dropped years, and the closed gates.
That hand has been the Joint Women's Programme, for forty-eight years.
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About Us
With over 48 years of grassroots impact and dedicated policy advocacy we feel proud having actively contributed to formation of key bills such Womenโs Reservation Bill, campaigning for legislation to combat gender-based violence, and advancing menstrual hygiene policies - weโre proud to stand alongside changemakers like you to build a more just and inclusive world for girls.
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