Dolly can dream big

Dolly is 12 years old and a 7th grader at the Pardada Pardadi Inter College in Anoopshahr, India. Her father, Suresh, is a farmer and her mother, Rajkumari, is a house wife. Dolly has one sister and one brother.

Pardada Padadi (PPES) realizes that the cycle of poverty can be broken only by educating and empowering the weakest members of society: rural female children. The organization provides rural girls with both a value-based education and vocational skill training. The organization has also initiated the unique concept of providing monetary incentives for families to send their girls to school, including depositing ten rupees per day in the bank account of a girl for attending school. The girls from PPES will graduate with the equivalent of a high school diploma, marketable skills in textile work, a nest-egg of approximately 30,000 rupees ($600), social and developmental skills, and an assured job at PPES.

Dolly’s favorite subject is English and she wants to use her education at PPES to one day become a doctor. Thank you Tania, Nathalie, Justin, and Sony for making this possible!