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Teach them to catch fish

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One of the major reason a girl child fails to attend the school are Accessibility, Poverty and Gender Inequality If we can address these issues, we can achieve the goal of educating the girls, Increase the access: we need more facilities, like restroom, school buildings and transport etc. for addressing poverty/child labors/child marriage we need to provide them an alternate source of income, say a small stipend for the children attending the school, and who maintains some 95% percentage of complete attendance etc. When the girl child, becomes an income providing group, more parents tend to send the child to school. Why do they keep them at home ? or Send them to low wage child labor work ? When some one provides them a stipend/food along with a bright future ? But the decision to go for a stipend/nutrition program is upto GOVT/UNICEF. Please go through this article its very useful:Its about poverty with a different perspective: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articl

Awareness Campaign

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Campaign based awareness through accessible mediums Create an awareness campaign through various media: Ration-Food Campaign : As part of UNHCR steps, Ration-Food is been provided at some places; ensure that the packaged food like milk, grocery items and water bottles has a campaign on advantages of educating the girls. This can be a comic strip based campaign or just an ordinary campaign with few words. School Level Competition : Conduct competition at school and colleges ask the students to come up with posters, advertisement viral, street play concepts etc. All the materials should be uploaded to the site, and it will be allowed for the public viewing to create the awareness across the world. This ensures that at least in future people would resolve the issues by talking. The top x campaigns will be selected by UNHCR and will be put into use.For e.g. the Script/ Street Play video can be played in local community so parents and families will realize the importance of educatin

Technology Based Education For Poor Children

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Please give a detailed outline of your proposed solution or idea. Include any potential partners in implementation as well as potential timeline and budget for implementation. Use Technology to provide education to children : We can give quality education by using the technology and by connecting to the globe, and where ever possible reuse the existing information.Use a common place for school, like temple,church in absence of school. EDU-VAN for education:Mobile van will contain equipment like Computer,Mobiles,Mobile gadgets like memory card,Mobile/Radio charge outlet which will be used by the teacher and students. The mobile van can reach to the remote place and can be used to teach the students. The recorded media like pdf can be saved in the mobiles so this will serve as a text book for children. Th children can take the mobiles to their home and can learn. The usage of recorder media such as videos from youtube, how stuff works will help the children to learn at faster/own p