Father matters

The Hindu | Feb. 5, 2009 (News Report)
An American NGO joins hands with Deepalaya to involve men in educating their daughters

“I want my daughter to attend school but her father has to agree’, is a common reaction in most mothers that we come across,” Sudha Parthasarathy, Executive Director, Deepalaya, relates her first-hand experience of working in the field of girl child education.

Like Sudha, many involved with the campaign would agree that a large number of young girls in this country do not go to school because their fathers think it is not worth it. In a ... Full Story »

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Topics: India, Global Literacy
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Posted by: Posted by Dale Penn - Feb 5, 2009 - 10:22 AM PST
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 by Dale Penn - Feb. 5, 2009

A report providing information on a new effort to engage and inform fathers in India and other patriarchal societies in the education of their daughters, this report is limited by the fact that this program is in its early stages.

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