How CSOs & Corporates Can Help Girls Get Better Education
A fundamental requirement that affects the future of economies all across the world is education. The improvement of society’s weakest segments can be seen in the intellectual health of people, especially female children. In India alone, there are around 200 million illiterate women, which is the highest in the world, despite the constitution providing free and compulsory education to all. The urban female literacy rate is 64%, whereas the rural literacy rate is just half which is 31%.
Raising Awareness:
CSOs can reach the most vulnerable section of the society because of their expertise in groundwork. Corporations and CSOs can partner to conduct awareness campaigns promoting the importance of girls’ education. Corporations can also leverage the Anaganwadis for spreading awareness of education for girls and their empowerment.
Addressing the infrastructure gap:
Given a proper policy direction, technology and infrastructure have the capability to bridge the ever widening chasm that exists. Urgent and immediate attention must be channeled to building infrastructure for education. CSR initiatives targeted at improving accessibility to infrastructure, can be designed and aligned with pre-existing government initiatives, or can be implemented separately as well. Companies can extend their resources and aid children from the underserved communities, by providing devices to access the internet, or can set up computer labs in partnership with CSOs and build an enabling environment for them. Telecom companies can look at rolling out economical internet plans, or can build network towers for increased internet connectivity.
Scholarship Programmes:
As part of their CSR, corporations can promote girl education by extending scholarships for girl children from the impoverished section of the society. Fiinovation recently partnered with DP World, and assisted them with efficient implementation of Pragati Scholarship programme which aimed at providing scholarships to girls from economically weaker families in Mundra, Gujarat.
Providing Free Education:
CSR programmes can be designed which focuses at providing free education to girls. Companies and CSO can partner to open up new schools within the reach of children and provide books, food, and facilities such as clean water, electricity, and furniture in schools.
Skill Development Workshops:
Education would be useless, if it is not followed by employment opportunities. Along with basic education, several skill development workshops can be organised. These workshops will develop their skills through various skill development classes and will make them financially independent. The skills should be such that they can provide them with career opportunities and let them establish their business and make them economically strong.
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CSR initiatives face many challenges in India and are often seen as a deterrent to even the best-intentioned plans. The most important ones are described here.
The enactment of the law is only a stepping stone. A lot depends on the will of the corporations to execute the plan into actions. The target constituencies should be encouraged to take benefits of the CSR initiatives. The government should also work hard to remove any obstacle that the corporations might run into. The resolve of companies and government
The CSR activities in India should not be undertaken in the normal course of business and must be with respect to any of the activities mentioned in Schedule VII of the act”. After the enforcement of new Companies
Amada India Pvt. Ltd. (AIPL) recognized that there are many government schools in Bengaluru that require a remodeling in order to attract students to the schools.
Upon research and identification of this problem, fiinovation found a government lower primary school in BK PALYA, Bengaluru, Karnataka that needed immediate attention.
The main aim of mandatory CSR for organizations fulfilling minimum eligibility criteria is to address social issues and grievances. Organizations have the liberty to select the social cause they want to address depending on factors best known to them. They can also choose to coordinate
There is immense scope for corporate houses to contemplate and undertake CSR ideas on ground. Nevertheless, what is required is the will at the corporates’ end to accomplish the same. Aligning the will and funds of corporates with the experience of professional CSOs