Every girl deserves the educational and career opportunities that offer them a better life

Since its inception, GPM has focused on girls education. In many historically marginalized communities in slums and underserved villages, the challenges faced by girls can sometimes seem insurmountable. Challenges include:

• preference for families to educate only male children (The average female literacy rate in India is 62.3% for women as compared to 80% for men)

• girls forced into early marriages (102 million married before the age of 15 last year)

• cultural attitudes and financial constraints around girl's menstruation that keeps girls away from school during their period (one out of five girls say that they miss school during their period).

• extreme poverty forcing families to send their girls to child labor and drop out of school (10.1 million child laborers are reported in India, one of the highest in the world.)

• general cultural attitudes that girls and women should focus on household/farming chores and not pursue an education (India has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the world; 21% of women in India over the age of 15 participate in the labor force).

• lack of female hygiene products in schools and home that hinders school attendance and causes girls to drop out of school (Every year more than 23 million girls in India drop out of school due to the lack of necessary products and hygiene education)

Gabriel Project Mumbai has been working to counter these awful trends through:

• Grants for girls. Helping families receive government grants towards paying for their daughters’

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• Girls STEM. Teaching STEM (Science and Math) subjects to girls and guiding girls towards higher learning in the Sciences
  
• Menstrual support. Distributing female hygiene products in schools and in the villages in coordination with the local government health authorities
  
• Female hygiene training. Teaching a comprehensive hygiene education curriculum in schools and to young mothers
  
• Community education. Providing outreach to communities about the importance of girl’s education
  
• Combatting child labor practices. Coordinating community level campaigns combatting child labor in hundreds of remote villages

Every girl deserves the educational and career opportunities that offer them a better life.

Please join Gabriel Project Mumbai in promoting girls’ education to hundreds of girls living in underserved communities in India!

Donate today: https://www.gabrielprojectmumbai.org/donate