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UK-funded educational project for schoolchildren

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: Recognizing deprivation as a bane that can stunt growth of brightest of the children, Learning for Life, a United Kingdom-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has offered to sponsor a unique education drive. Besides financial help, the literacy programme envisages extending psychological support for trauma management to students who are orphaned at a young age due to various reasons.

In Andhra Pradesh, NGO Sanghamitra Service Society is the lead partner to the UK-based organisation while the Vijayawada-based Vasavya Mahila Mandali (VMM) is its local partner. Launched on July 1, the programme covers 21 schools in the city.

As part of the programme, 1,095 students from 19 municipal and two zilla parishad schools have been selected from the 5-18 age group for bestowing special care and attention they deserve. Of them, 145 are orphans who lost both their parents and are given an additional benefit of 6 kg of rice and one kg of cereals every month.

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