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Our Story

Founded in 2017, Balika is a nonprofit focused on the education and empowerment of girls from at-risk communities in urban India. Balika works closely with school leadership, teachers, and community members to reduce school dropout rates and build essential skills among girls.

Our focus is two-fold— we increase school enrolment rates through sponsorship and community outreach and once girls are re-enrolled into the school system, we work on retention through leadership development, mentorship, and remedial classes.

Since our inception, we have impacted over 1200 young women and girls through our initiatives. Our Covid-relief programme launched in 2020 has impacted over 25,000 women in the community.

Vision

Project Balika aims to achieve higher enrollment, attendance, and retention of young girls from low-income urban schools in India. We aim to achieve long-term gender-inclusivity, economic independence, and empowerment of all young girls and women across India.

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Values

Our model is built on the values of inclusivity, leadership, self-reliance, equal opportunity, and discipline.

Mission

Through education, skill-building, and community empowerment we address barriers that keep girls away from school. We provide financial resources, training, and leadership development to affordable private schools in urban slums of India.

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