If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!
That’s why I was kicked to read this post on Nitin’s blog about the School Choice Campaign in India. Education has always been close to my heart and I agree with his assessment that it is the single most important factor in continuing India’s economic progress:
Centre for Civil Society’s School Voucher Program will award vouchers to 9400 primary school students across India. Each voucher worth upto INR 6000 will fund one child’s education in the school of their choice for a year. The voucher will be given until they complete their primary education from their preferred school [Read more at School Choice]. Rs.6000 which roughly equals $150 is not bad for an annual contribution to charity and even manageable for our household which still has one member in grad school. Also, school vouchers are considered to be one of the most viable options in education policy as it gives parents the freedom to choose the best school for their child without imposing any unnecessary limits.
If you too are looking for places to make serious contributions to charity, School Choice sounds like a perfect avenue.
by Patrix | on Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 10:52 am | 
India, education . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm reply
This is just awesome! Thanks.
We feel the same way at home as well about wanting to channel our money directly and this seems like a perfect avenue. I looked up the site for a bit, maybe I need to search, but is there an option for suggesting to want to support a girl child? Would you know?
In any case, good stuff. :)
January 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm reply
rads, I’m glad that you found it useful. I’m not sure you can donate specifically to a girl child but I would suggest writing them an email. Probably they could arrange that.