Summary:
Covid-19 induced lockdown has meant more pleas of help and a steady decline in donations.
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Covid-19 has been the toughest time for so many people in the world either due to losing someone close to them or to lose something valuable to them, but it has also been a tough year for all the initiatives which were started to empower the less abled and people who needed to be uplifted.
It was in 2010 that Gulab Rajput and his daughter Nishita started a noble initiative to support the education of girl students.
In the last 11 years, they have roped in donors who have paid Rs 1,000 each towards the school fees of 3,800 girls.
Like everything else under the Sun, the pandemic has impacted their drive too.
The Covid-19 induced lockdown has meant more pleas of help and a steady decline in donations.
With the lockdown resulting in job losses and reduced income, parents of many girl students are knocking at the doors of Rajput for help.
“The situation of some families is such that they are hardly making ends meet so obviously it’s the education of kids that suffers the most.
Some of the parents who approached us were not able to pay full fees for the last academic year too.
The report cards of their wards have been withheld by the schools,” said Gulab, who had made fixed deposits of Rs 5,000 each for 21 girls at Nishita’s wedding last year.
Mukesh Goswami, an auto-rickshaw driver said that since the last one and half years his income has been hit badly.