Spring 2024 marked the beginning of the School Enrollment Campaign in Saptari District through our Caste Equality Project. Beginning in April, our team worked hard to organize all kinds of activities and programming to boost school enrollment in Tirhut Rural Municipality, including:
- Making door-to-door visits to chat with parents, encouraging them to enroll their children in school and answering any questions they may have
- Distributing hundreds of school uniforms and bags to children in the region (handmade by our industrial tailoring students enrolled at Olgapuri Vocational School!)
- Coordinating rallies around villages
- Running return-to-classroom bridge tutoring classes for 60 girls who previously dropped out of school
- Offering free nutritious mid-day lunches in classrooms
The School Enrollment Campaign ran until May 10th. Our team saw an increase of 35% in enrollment over 2023 numbers, with 820 children enrolled in school for the 2024-2025 school year.