Access to education through provision of transport whether on a bus or a bicycle is a huge change agent in the lives of girls that would simply not have any option other than to become homemakers after finishing school at primary or elementary level.
These days an education is not complete without learning how to use a computer. Vast numbers of our youth living in remote areas, do not have access to computer technology. In 2022 White Lotus Trust provided three month computer foundation courses to 280 girls from ten remote villages in Jharkhand and advanced courses are already underway in 2023.
Lack of health services and knowledge of basic hygiene leads to many social ills and impacts on education and livelihood outcomes. Our CARE programs include Village based health programs and provision of nutrition for school children.
Over the course of 2022 White Lotus Trust projects have brought a sharp focus on closing the loop by providing access to education and training that prepares youth to make better choices with respect to their choice of subjects and employment pathways.
We offer a range of education, training and health (CARE) strategies arranged in verticals to serve the particular needs of women and children living in poverty. During this year we provided more than 1000 youth either a bus or a bike to ensure they have access to education and training. Further, a basic high school education may not be enough to ensure a young graduate gets a good job, but if we give her a university degree, career counseling, and computer and employment targeted training diplomas, the chances of reaching full potential where she can support herself and her family over the course of a life, multiply considerably.
White Lotus is delighted to be in the third year of CSR funding from Nissan India Motor Company India Limited (NIMPL) supporting two hundred rural children from 23 villages riding on Blossom Bus, including one hundred girls at Haryana and one hundred at Tamil Nadu.
Ten years old Jayasri from 5th standard at Garden of Peace School in Tamil Nadu, tells us how much she appreciates riding on the bus and gives a big Thank You to Nissan!!
We are very happy to have provided 605 bicycles to young tribal women at Jharkhand in the past two years and are now urgently looking to secure funding to provide another two hundred needed for new batches of girls to attend computer and vocational training centres. Tribal children of Jharkand suffer multiple and intersectional disadvantages. […]
We are delighted to share the wonderful news that over the course of 2022 our Blossom Bus (BB) program at Haryana trained and employed former BB riders as mentors, education and gender champions to provide our girls inspiration and encouragement to pursue their dreams of further education and a career path. Who better than graduates […]
Realising there are over 150,000 schools in India and only 300 or 400 career counsellors, LO career counselling project was initiated as a pilot in 2022 with a view to developing a full-blown service for children of lower income families totally lacking in any form of guidance with respect to educational and professional choices, taking […]