Happy Hearts For Kids

Why don’t some kids in the slums get to go to school in India? 4 reasons – and you can do something about all of them.

• Caste discrimination. Some teachers flat out don’t believe ‘slum kids’ and ‘rag-pickers’ (a derogatory term used for kids who search for food in piles of garbage) can learn. In fact, we’ve had to let people go from our own team a couple times when we discovered they were holding kids back because of these ingrained stereotypes.
• Poverty. Some kids in the slums are just too hungry and tired to make it. We’ve had kids show up famished. It’s hard to learn when you’re so weak from lack of proper nutrition. That’s why we feed them before we teach them.
• Disease. Many kids in the slums have preventable and treatable diseases like tuberculosis and thalassemia. But their parents don’t have the money or the resources to do anything. So they stay home and suffer, and miss out on school.
• Mental illness and autism. Most schools in India don’t have the training or resources to work with kids who have special needs. So they get no education at all.

Schools turn away kids like these, or they let them drift away and don’t go after them. How can you help?

We need our own facility. A new education building we can operate on our own where we teach the kids the other schools won’t teach. Where we can meet all their needs and help them learn. A place their parents can trust that will give their kids a chance at a better life.

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Please give to India’s kids in the slums, and give these kids a chance!

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