KABITA OF PROJECT MALA

Kabita Sharma resides in the Village of Rampur with her parents and 5 siblings. This family of 8 is Hindu and lives in a homemade, unirrigated land with only 2 mudrooms and a community well for their water supply. Her entire family is literate; however, her father, a farmer, only receives an income. With the scholarships WEF has provided, 15-year-old Kabita attends the Patehra School of Project Mala. Although she is the 4th oldest child of her siblings, she has a noticeable ambition to gain an education. Kabita realizes that she can only become self-dependent and help support her family through the education Project Mala provides. She says she comes from a low-income family and thus would never be able to attend a school without this project’s generosity. Kabita also realizes that Project Mala’s priority is to help those who need it the most: the children whose parents can’t afford education.

Since she resonates with this goal on a personal level, she can embrace education even more. Kabita is grateful for the scholarships and sponsors because “it’s difficult to get an education” without them. She says that if her parents had to fund her schooling, it would be at her sibling’s expense, and she would also have to work on the side. Since she comes from a large family, ensuring all siblings get equal education opportunities is hard. She says that’s where Project Mala and the WEF scholarships come in. The operation’s people acknowledge that if they can’t help everyone, they can at least help someone and that one person can make all the difference in the world. The difference made in Kabita’s life by WEF Funded Project Mala will mean everything to herself and her family.