Calcutta Rescue (CR) collaborates with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives for empowering 126 girl students
Azim Premji Foundation is one of the largest not-for-profit organisations that has been working since 2000 with the elementary education system in rural government schools.
It is founded by Azim Hashim Premji, an Indian business tycoon, philanthropist, and the founder of Wipro Limited to contribute to a social cause and address the various developmental challenges facing the country.
Azim Premji Foundation includes these Operating Units:
- Field Institutes, our network of District Institutes and affiliated Schools that currently work to improve public education system in India;
- Philanthropy, the grants organization, so far referred to as Azim Premji Philanthropy that provides financial support through multi-year grants to not-for-profit organizations (NPOs) who serve the most vulnerable in our society
- University in Bengaluru, set up in 2010, to run teaching programs and conduct research to contribute to the social sector in India, and to be an exemplar higher education institution – with inclusion and quality
With Calcutta Rescue, their target is to see 95% of girls move to the next class each year.
Their planned activities:
- Holistic improvement school continuation of CR’s 126 adolescent girls,
Ensuring their future readiness with life skill training as per WHO’s core life skills set.
Mentoring support, career counselling and tie-up with vocational institutes.
- Effective counselling on mental health issues, counselling of parents especially the mothers. training of the senior students as change champions.
- Improving nutrition and contraceptive knowledge, antenatal care, vaccination rates, better knowledge of hygiene and diseases like HIV, TB, Hep-B, Dengue/malaria, leprosy and Covid, sensitizing their slum communities
And enabling them to become changing champions
This is a three-year-long project that will start tentatively in September. We will share more information as soon as our project starts.
