Sakhi for Girls Education

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OUR MISSION

SAKHI’s mission is to create quality learning spaces at the community level, so that every girl in the slums of Mumbai and rural villages of Osmanabad, India, will get an opportunity to continue her education with confidence. SAKHI means a female friend of girls who inspires, guides, and supports other girls for a good cause. Since 2008, Aarti Naik, a slum-based young girl “Changemaker”, has been building basic educational capacities for other slum and rural area girls through a community-based after-school programme.

SAKHI’s major objective is to provide a girls’ learning space, aimed specifically at those girls who are living and learning in difficult situations, so that they have an opportunity to receive quality education in a secure environment.

The stable and reliable basic educational capacity of SAKHI’s learning space provides life skills to the girls and allows them to learn with confidence. Initially, these slum and rural area girls were struggling to read and write, their vocabulary level was poor, their confidence and motivation to learn was very low, and therefore they were not able to participate actively in their school’s daily class activities.

SAKHI’s daily educational activities enable slum and rural area girls to build basic literacy and numeracy skills within their community. The availability of basic English textbooks has improved their vocabulary levels tremendously and they are able to read and write effectively, while continuing to attend school and improving their learning further.

A MESSAGE from

Aarti Naik, Changemaker

” Thank you for your interest in SAKHI for Girls’ Education!

I am thankful for your willingness to give of your valuable resources to improve girls’ education. I believe every individual has the power to change the lives of girls who are living in difficult situations. I very much appreciate your ideas and support while I strive to provide continuous quality education to my slum and rural area girls.

Please be a mentor, well-wisher, and supporter of slum and rural area girls’ education. “

– Aarti Naik

OUR PROGRAMS

Educating Slum and Rural Area Girls

Today more than 100 girls have access to a girls’ learning space inside their own slum community, where they come together to participate in SAKHI’s educational programmes.

Girls' Learning Centre

A safe and quality learning space where girls come together to learn, The Learning Centre offers a community-based basic education programme especially for building basic literacy, numeracy, and life skills of slum and rural area girls with a lifelong learning approach. 

Girls' Book Bank

Helping Slum and Rural Area Girls to Read and Lead, his initiative promotes literacy in English and Marathi by providing books, and book bags for their safe storage, to neighbourhood girls. 

Sakhi Girls' Bank

SAKHI brings girls together regularly to put aside money specifically for their future educational needs. Girls learn how to save, how to use their saved money in emergencies, and to provide for their own formal schooling.

Audio Storytelling Project

Every day a new inspiring audio story creates positive hope for girls and their family members who are isolated at home. Our initiative helps more than 5000 girls in urban and rural India through the power of audio storytelling.

We are pleased to support Aarti Naik and her initiative, SAKHI for Girls’ Education, and we hope our support will help Aarti’s slum-girl voice reach you. We are honored to be sponsors of SAKHI’s efforts for the cause of slum girls’ education in India.

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NRI / FOREIGN DONORS

DONATE TO AARTI NAIK’S GIRLS’ EDUCATION INITIATIVE

Aarti Naik’s work to educate Mumbai slum and rural area girls is funded by Sahityaratna Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Bahuudeshiya Samajik Sanstha (SLASBSS), a registered charity in Maharashtra, India. When you donate online to Citizen Angel, 100% of the funds received are granted to SLASBSS to support Aarti Naik’s Girls’ Education Initiative. Citizen Angel and SLASBSS retain no percentage of these funds.

INDIAN DONORS

DONATE TO SAKHI FOR GIRLS EDUCATION FROM WITHIN INDIA

All donations are eligible for 50% tax exemption under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

Donors located in India can donate directly to Sakhi for Girls Education via PayUMoney.