What our director Linda van der Wijk says about Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO ‘s statistic with regards to inequality in access to secondary education for adolescents:

📣WNCB India Awards For Untold Stories: five awards for encouraging writings on issues of #childlabour. For students, freelancers, researchers in India. ➡️Read about application: tinyurl.com/pw86huhc Join us in our movement to #EndChildLabour2021

Our new blog on how the Ika Chaalu Project by MV FOUNDATION and CharityFundRijsholt approaches universalizing education for adolescent girls ikachaalu.com/post/the-ika-c… #EducationForAll #girlsnotbrides #generationequality

New blogpost on how the Ika Chaalu Ika Chaalu project by SCFR and MV FOUNDATION approaches universalizing education for adolescent girls. ikachaalu.com/post/the-ika-c…

Ika Chaalu: converting sites of discrimination to sites for resolution of conflict. Must read for all those committed to issues of freedom and choice for adolescent girls. Ika Chaalu Thank you Prof Shantha Sinha for sharing this. Hewlett Foundation Alfonsina

Ika Chaalu,MV FOUNDATION,CharityFundRijsholt have included the 12 years of education in the guiding principles for the Ika Chaalu Project. In fact,it is the very first one:"All girls must be in a full-time school or any full-time education stream until completion of 18 years"Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO

#IDRMostRead | "In the end, we had appeared unreliable, disorganised, & possibly unmotivated—all of which was very far from how we intended to approach this project." In an effort to do everything at once, two co-founders lose out on their dream project. idronline.org/when-ambition-…

ikachaalu.com (by Ika Chaalu MV FOUNDATION,CharityFundRijsholt)helps to highlight innovative strategies used to universalize education,track impact of pandemic on girls,capture voices from the field,provide a forum for debate&discussion.  UN Girls' Education Initiative Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO #GenerationEquality

Congratulations to fellow alumnus Laurien Meuter on being chosen Alumnus of the Year 2020. At CharityFundRijsholt we are very happy to see University of Groningen elect an Alumnus of the Year who is working for sustainable development using a holistic and scaleable approach with Tiny Miracles Fnd

This is why in the Ika Chaalu project CharityFundRijsholt and MV FOUNDATION make sure that every girl is known, and every girl is communicated with by the incredible field staff who work tirelesly to prevent that any adolescent girl goes missing, gets married or stuck in child labour

The latest Ika Chaalu blog,on changing social norms that deny children their rights. ikachaalu.com/post/recasting… with MV FOUNDATION CharityFundRijsholt Shantha Sinha. Please read, comment, subscribe! UN Girls' Education Initiative Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO Girls Not Brides Work: No Child's Business Hivos Global Plan International UNICEF Global Partnership for Education

As schools are closed longer,more long term damage is done to a whole generation of children. Schools are,in many countries,much more than a place of learning the curriculum. The COVID-19 is not only a health crisis but also a humanitarian crisis,education crisis,food crisis etc

Happy to share, this is important and gives reasons to be hopeful: on how adolescent girls resist marriage during covid lockdown: ikachaalu.com/post/adolescen…

We will definitely read this article by Dr. Rekha Wazir, in Development and Change. Ika Chaalu is all about sustainable norm change!

Thrilled that this paper by Dr. Rekha Wazir is published.”The field” draws on is the lka Chaalu project (Ika Chaalu ) and other work by MV FOUNDATION & Shantha Sinha . I feel privileged to have been party to many of the discussions.

A new blog post on the Ika Chaalu site. CharityFundRijsholt and MV FOUNDATION tribute to Kamla Bhasin. What she taught us impacts the Ika Chaalu team every day in their personal lives and work. In a GOOD way! ikachaalu.com/post/it-was-lo…

The 9th ICSD Asia Pacific Biennial Conference is organised soon,at the School of Global Studies (GSSE Thammasat) in Bangkok. Conference theme is Sustainable Development Efforts in Times of Crises. Find the call for abstracts here: sgs.tu.ac.th/icsdap/ Deadline 25 September!

The power of the people can change the system

Ika Chaalu!! There was a wonderful convention for adolescent girls in Telangana. About 250 participants and representatives of kishora Balika Samgams came together in Hyderabad on Sunday 16 October 2022 to make their voice heard. youtu.be/Y85wa_vEytg

The latest Ika Chaalu blog post has just come online, with stories of how adolescent girls experienced the pandemic and its restrictions ikachaalu.com/post/corona-st…