Educate and Empower Girls for Better Society

It’s been many years since the empowerment of women became a global issue. But we still a long way to go before women truly have equal standing in society.

Empowerment of women should start from childhood, and education is the best way to achieve this.  An opportunity to attend school can instil confidence, improve intelligence and provide independence to girls.

However, the reality is, unlike boys, girls are not getting the opportunity to attend schools. 

The steps taken by Indian Government to make education a fundamental right for all children, has helped improve the situation and has also helped provide education for girls.  This was how programmes like National Program for Education of Girls at Elementary Level’ (NPEGEL), Mahila Samakhya Program’ and ‘‘Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme’ were introduced in India.

NGOs too have worked relentlessly to empower women in India. The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a top NGO in India has always stood for the welfare of girls and women. The Mid-Day Meal Programme, run by the organisation has helped bring millions of girls back to school. Besides this, the organisation provides employment to hundreds of women across its 24 units, thereby giving them regular income and higher standing in society.

Like Akshaya Patra, each one of us can also make a change in lives of our girl children.  We can make a small contribution to send our daughters to school. With this small effort we can transform the lives of entire generations of women.

Let the change starts with me.