IMPACT: A School Opens in a Baiga Village
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 2015-07-31

Mauwamaccha Village, Mungeli District, Chhattisgarh | Deena Ganvir 


The literacy rate for Scheduled Tribes in Chhattisgarh is 59.1% compared to an overall 70.3% for the whole state’s population. Villages like Sajankhar epitomise this situation. Having known the nature of her work, the community specifically reached out to Deena for help to get a school started in the village. After taking the matter to the Block Education Officer and following up regularly, a small thatched-roof school welcomed some 10-15 children for the first time in July 2013.

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