Q&A session with fundraising target organization Dalit Women Forum
We had a Q&A talk with the fundraiser Sharon Freundlich and the target organization Dalit Women Forum founder Vijaya Kumari.
What fundraising cause?
Enable the education of girl children in India
The target organization, Dalit Women Forum, operates on the belief that all Dalit people should live in a caste- and gender discrimination-free society. This includes giving all girls access to mainstream education. Education should be freely available to everyone, but for many Dalit children living in slums such as Addagutta, in India, this is not the case. Young girls are discriminated against from birth and face the prospect of early marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and a life of abuse and poverty. Giving a girl the opportunity to enter mainstream education will enable her to grow in a positive environment, providing her with both the skills and independence to succeed in the future.
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The Q&A session:
We were covering these questions for the fundraising:
— What happens to the girls after 1 year, will they be out of school because this campaign is only for one year in private school?
— Why is it private school? Isn’t it more expensive than public school?
— Why is it important to have awareness raising camps for parents?
— What are the honorary volunteers? What do they do?
— How is the awareness raising taking place? Are volunteers going door to door?
— Why is it so hard to convince the parents to let the girls go to school?
— How could people help and support Dalit Women Forum?
— How does the COVID affect on these vulnerable girls and families?
— Many donors are afraid of the misuse of their donations, e.g. corruption, could you explain why should they trust Dalit Women Forum?
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