Bangalore

Since 2004, Toe to Heart pays school fees and also organises after-school care for the impoverished children of single parents in Bangalore, India. We support youngsters, whereby single parents, mostly the mothers, are enabled to keep working towards the family income. In this way, In this way, several dozen children, aged 8 to 18, have been supported very intensively over the past 20 years.

The area where the project is located has changed in those 20 years from a poor neighborhood with dusty, unpaved roads to a prosperous one and thus it is not suitable to continue the project further. The project is slowly being phased out and followed up by a new but similar project, Bangalore Countryside.

 

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What we have achieved, numerically, in the past 20 years with our Toe to Heart project

  • 22 children, 15 girls and 7 boys, mostly from poor one-parent families received long-term support from us, all more than 5 years and sometimes even 12 years, in study costs and after-school care. With this help they could finish their education in English and obtain a diploma. They are now 14-30 years old.
  • 2 younger boys are still going every day to school
  • 5 boys have paid work.
  • 1 of these 5 boys is now taking up a further education in combination with work.
  • 1 younger girl still goes every day to school
  • 12 girls have paid work.
  • 3 of the 13 girls are currently doing a higher education in combination with work 
  • 4 girls and 2 boys have each of them started a family. Thanks to their education, they can now help their own children better and escape the poverty cycle. 

 

Moreover

  • 10 children, of which 7 girls and 3 boys, have only been with us only for a year or a few years. This short duration was often due to relocation. 
  • Also, for years we also have been giving after school care to dozens of other children. 
  • Finally, it should not be underestimated how important it was that the single parent - usually the mother-could do paid work when the child was at school and in our afterschool care, which allowed them to provide maintenance (rental, food) themselves. We contributed to that too. 

 

In short, we have noticed that our small-scale approach can make a positive, life changing, contribution to underprivileged young people.

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