After a world tour, Martine Ackermann and her family came back very involved and concerned about the children who do not have access to school education all over the world, this fundamental and precious right. Thus, in February 2012, Martine founded the association Child CARE Monaco (Charity
Association for the
Right to
Education) which aims to promote the education of children in need.
Child Care Monaco began by sponsoring 20 street children in a district of Jaipur to give them access to school.
In 2013 Child Care Monaco visited a village far from everything, where girls did not go to school because they had to work to support their families, as is customary in many countries.
The demand from the villagers to set up a school for girls motivated us to set up the first school in a grain silo which had been lent to us and which we have set up for the occasion. After 2 years of existence, the experiment proved fruitful; the attendance rate has steadily increased and so has the waiting list.
Many mothers, aware of the importance of education for their daughter, did not want to offer them the same hard life that they endured and kept asking us during our visits. We then decided to build a new larger and more suitable school, which currently accommodates 110 girls.
Recall that it is still difficult to access education for girls in India. And access to school remains very low compared to boys.
Among the main factors of this disparity are the
poverty, and the persistence of
prejudice
and
lore
sociocultural; which lead to a
discrimination
against girls who are considered worthless beings, and are raised in this
culture
inferiority.
The problem of
the absence of toilets
in schools remains a drag on girls, as well as
long distance
between school and home; because in both cases parents are afraid of aggression. The caste system also remains a brake on access to education in general; for example, the untouchables are often marginalized from the education system.
We have considered all these expectations by building our
SNEH school
directly in the village of
Trestha
(about 2 hours drive from Udaipur): the school is close to their home, it's a safe place, it has sanitary that work and the teachers are graduated.
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