Ananya* is a 10-year-old girl from a remote village in Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh. She lives with her parents, grandparents, four sisters, and one brother. Her family depends on agriculture and often migrates to Gujarat for labour work. Due to this, Ananya was not enrolled in school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a door-to-door survey in the village, Shankar, an Educate Girls\u2019 Field Coordinator, visited Ananya\u2019s house and found her at home. Her parents were busy with farming, and Ananya had stayed back to take care of her younger siblings and help with household chores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Shankar later met her parents, he spoke to them\u2014her parents said, \u201cIt is better if she helps at home while we work in the fields.\u201d Despite several conversations, they were not ready to change their mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shankar then visited the local village school to discuss Ananya\u2019s situation with the teacher. Together, Shankar and the teacher decided to visit Ananya\u2019s house to speak to her father. But once again, he refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next day, Shankar met the Sarpanch (village head) <\/em>and explained Ananya\u2019s situation. He requested the Sarpanch to accompany him to Ananya\u2019s home and speak with the family. During the visit, Shankar shared examples of the difference that education can make. He also shared his own story – how being educated allowed him to work and support others. This time, the message got through. Ananya\u2019s parents finally agreed to send her to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shankar then helped them arrange all necessary documents. Since Ananya didn\u2019t have an Aadhaar card, he took her parents to the Panchayat Secretary to get her birth certificate. He then accompanied them to the Aadhaar centre to get the Aadhaar card issued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With all documents in place, Ananya was finally enrolled in grade 1 at the village government school. Now, Ananya goes to school every day with her friends, smiling and eager to learn. Seeing this, her parents are happy and grateful. They expressed their sincere thanks to Field Coordinator Shankar and the primary school teacher for helping them understand the importance of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *name changed to protect minor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ananya* is a 10-year-old girl from a remote village in Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh. She lives with her parents, grandparents, four sisters, and one brother. Her family depends on agriculture and often migrates to Gujarat for labour work. Due to this, Ananya was not enrolled in school. During a door-to-door survey in the village, Shankar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6545,"featured_media":14385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beneficiary-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16473,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions\/16473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}