Tiny havens of learning – Innovation is the key at the new balphulwaris in Bahraich
Right to education, education for all, beti bachhao, beti padao (save the daughter, educate the daughter) are wonderful slogans. But putting them to practice can be a Herculean challenge, especially when it comes to flood-rehabilitated peasants in remote Baldipurwa village of Bahraich. When the Ghagra river washed away Basgari village in 2013, the families were rehabilitated in bamboo, plastic and tin huts in this barren dust bowl of Uttar Pradesh.
Today, some 200 families live in the rehabilitated village, 60 from Basgari and the rest from Pachdevri hamlet. All do labour work, travelling to Bahraich, Lucknow and other cities. Their children were wandering around aimlessly, covered with dirt. Eighty per cent of the resettled in Baldipurwa had never been to a school, so the question of sending their children to one seemed a distant possibility. There was nothing close by, not even an ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) Centre. Then the Aga Khan Foundation, with its dreams of seeing every child in school, took on the challenge.
Read more at the source: Business Line / USHA RAI / June 01, 2018
Ismailimail 
The Aga Khan Foundation has taken this challenge and will win it as it has for years promoted education, sanitation, hospitals, housing etcc in rural area’s where the lives of people have improved drastically. Hence this very difficult challenge will succeed.
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