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 […]
White Lotus Charitable Trust and Garden of Peace (GOP) school in Tamil Nadu have entered a partnership to develop village based traditional oil extraction as a social business . GOP has been operating a traditional bullock drawn unit for some years and together we have added two, slow grinding machines for processing highest quality cold […]
Girls in the tribal areas around the District of Hazaribagh having a burning desire to play football. Not only to play, but to be recognised as footballers in their own right. Our local partner in education and gender balancing brought together some 10 teams, 120 tribal girls for the first ever all girls football tournament […]
Adolescent groups provide a platform for rural girls and young women to meet, learn, raise their voices and express themselves in a safe and supportive environment. We recently travelled to Sonakha Village in a remote area of Haryana bordering Rajasthan to meet with a recently established Adolescent Youth Group (AYG) as well as Anganwadi and […]
We are delighted and very proud to announce a new partnership between Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. and White Lotus Trust to provide daily bus services to transport two hundred children from villages to their schools in rural Haryana and Tamil Nadu. 100 Nissan students from 8 villages at Haryana will add their voices to […]
We are very excited to have finally opened three Skills Training 4 Employment (SKIP) centres now training 90 women and girls in the 16 to 25 years age bracket, from low-income resettlement colonies of largely migrant daily-wage earners at Bawana and Sangam Vihar in West Delhi. Workers of these communities, heavily reliant on casual and […]
It is very exciting for us to report the Blossom Buses have been running again since September 21 when schools began opening in a phased manner. By mid October the buses were full and carrying around 600 girls from classes 9 to 12 to attend physical school on a daily basis and for the first […]
For the past two months during the Covid19 lockdown, White Lotus Trust, fully supported by Lotus Outreaches, LotusRelief program, has provided essential emergency relief in the most vulnerable in village and urban communities of north and south India. The lockdown commenced in India on 23 March bringing tremendous suffering and hardship to all but more […]
