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Vidya Bharati alumni from Mathura, starts awareness program on the importance of education in slum areas

Vidya Bharati alumni from Mathura, starts awareness program on the importance of education in slum areas

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Developing countries like India with high population density often leads to a large percentage of its citizens living in urban slums. With the increase of population in urban areas and development of new urban centers, number of slum dwelling families is set to increase exponentially in the coming years.

The lives of people residing in the slum areas is marred with several difficulties and the children are at greatest risk. Presently India has more than 7 million children living in slums, which constitute around 13% of the total child population in urban areas. Most of these children are either school dropouts or have never been to school. Often the children of these families are forced to leave studies and contribute towards family income, giving birth to another social evil of child labour.

In an effort to bring positive changes into the lives of the children living in slums, few of the alumni members KCG SVMK Inter college, Madhav Kunj, Mathura, started a small initiative, where they visit neighbouring slum areas to spread awareness regarding the importance of education.

In September 2019, a team of 25 alumni, visited the slum near Bhuteshwar station, Mathura. The main agenda of the visit was to launch an educational awareness campaign in the area. Around 50 children along with their families attended the program. The team also distributed stationary and other essential educational aid among the children to encourage them towards gaining education.

Schools under Vidya Bharati always try to install among its students the importance of social work, which leads to a lot of their alumni being associated with community service in some aspect.

 

If you are a Vidya Bharati alumni and want to share your inspirational work with others in the community, kindly email us at info@vidyabharatialumni.org

You can also donate towards educating underprivileged children from Vidya Bharati schools at https://www.vidyabharatialumni.org/donation

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