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Education KIRF INDIA has established three Education Centers in acutely poor rural villages using existing village structures with active community support. Over 450 children of the lowest caste (called Dalit--formerly known as "untouchable"), have been given a chance for a better life with an academic education that often includes health and medical care. Funds are needed for school supplies, teachers’ salaries , medical supplies and nutritious food for those suffering from malnutrition. Many children who are eager to learn are turned away due to lack of resources.As of late 2008, KIRF INDIA is running two Education Centers in rural Dalit villages in the Bodhgaya region. Our third center is suspended due to village complications. Our Education Centers are established in primarily illiterate villages. The concept of education for the children is new as this is a new opportunity for all. Children are assigned to classes by ability and not by age. For example, some girls began their education at eleven years of age. We take every precaution to be sensitive to these situations and in no way cause them embarrassment. Attendance at our centers is considerably less during the harvest season. Many students either work in the fields or care for siblings while the adults are in the fields. During a class the students sit on mats on the floor of government community buildings which are loaned to the village and KIRF INDIA as temporary school buildings. Each class has a blackboard and each student has four subject textbooks and stationary for lessons that have been provided by KIRF INDIA in accordance with Indian educational standards. The centers operate from 9 am – 1:30pm in the winter and in the summer classes begin at 7:00 am. Some of the children go home for lunch but the majority stay at the school and play. Due to the local poverty and the scarce resources of the schools, many school days have, in essence, a Lunch with No Lunch for the students. As often as possible, KIRF INDIA delivers nutritious snacks to these students. Read more about KIRF INDIA's education centers > New Education Center In 2009 KIRF INDIA will open its new education center on land it has recently purchased. The purchase of both the land and the new school's building materials were made possible by several generous donors. The new education center will teach rural children primary through secondary levels of instruction. The center will also provide health care, medical care and job training. Shade trees and a plantation of fruit trees are planned with local villager assistence. The plantings will provide a sustainable source of food, shade and beauty for the students and staff. Health and Medical Services KIRF India has sponsored many surgeries to correct deformities and to save lives in emergency situations. Common medical and health problems are: malnutrition, anemia, cleft lip and palate, polio deformities, club foot and injuries sustained in accidents (falling down a well, burns from cooking oil, etc.) KIRF INDIA's jeep provides transportation for an active Mobile Health Clinic provided by a local physician and non-profit. The used of the jeep brings public health training, children's nutrition therapy, and medical care to those in need in remote villages in conjunction with the Root Institute Community Clinic. The KIRF INDIA jeep also transports patients to health clinics for medical care from their remote rural villages. Health and medical programs include: AIDS Awareness and Prevention, Family Planning, Women’s Health, Medical Clinics, Hygiene and Nutrition.Environmental Conservation KIRF INDIA provides water safe for drinking and land renewal with it's well projects in rural villages surrounding Bodhgaya. KIRF INDIA's recycling programs and garbage cleanup days held at its Educational Centers are resulting in land renewel. KIRF INIDA's school gardens have been created from former village rubbish heaps. Family Planning Education is provided bi-monthly through KIRF INDIA's mobile health clinic's visits to rural villages.New Micro-Loan Programs The presence of KIRF INDIA's education center in Savordaypuri is attracting local support for a micro-loan cooperative to fund new small business initiatives for local Dalit families struggling to escape poverty and dependency. A local Indian non-profit is providing villagers with the training to manage a micro-loan cooperative and assistence setting up their bank account. With an income of their own (that is made possible by a micro-loan), these men and women would be able to provide a better life and future for themselves and their children.Many Dalit men must leave their villages for long stretches of time to find work, leaving the women to provide food and care for their families. Micro-loan programs allow these acutely impoverished women to borrow money to start small businesses that provide income needed to purchase neccessities such as nutritous food, clothing, safe shelter and other things that most people in the West take for granted. Micro credit is also available for the men, as in Gandian villages. KIRF INDIA endeavers to assist men who struggle to support their families so that they can become self-suffient and support the age old traditions of the local culture. Home | Donate | | Privacy Policy | Site Map
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