EducationIndividual
Priya, 16 — from the back of a village bus to the top of her biology class
Entered MTN's children's home at 6. Now preparing for her grade 10 board exams and determined to train as a rural nurse.
“If I become a nurse, I want to go back to my village. The women there would not have lost their children if someone had come sooner.”
$100 / month
One child's full residential care, schooling, meals, and medical access
Sponsor a Child →Baseline
- •Father died of tuberculosis when Priya was 5
- •Mother, a daily-wage agricultural worker, fell too ill to support three children
- •Priya and her younger sister had dropped out of the village anganwadi
- •Household averaged one meal a day; Priya had stopped speaking
Through MTN
- →Placed in MTN's children's home at age 6 (2016)
- →Enrolled in grade 2 the following year; now in grade 10
- →Daily meals, regular health check-ups, in-house tutoring, first-year trauma counselling
- →Mentored by MTN alumni now working as teachers and nurses
Results
- ✓Ranks top 5 in her class in biology and science
- ✓Grade 10 board exams scheduled next quarter
- ✓Accepted into MTN's nursing-pathway mentoring cohort
- ✓Eight other children from her original block are still in the programme
Name has been changed to protect privacy. Statistics are reported by programme teams and reviewed at our annual audit.