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Lai Gow is a small rural community in Udaipur in Northern India. It is home to approximately 2,500 people, who belong to the lowest caste in India’s hierarchy, known as the Adivasis. These people are among the poorest in India.

There are 400 children who live in the community and 350 of these do not attend school, but work long hours in conditions that most of us would find intolerable.

In association with the charity Free the Children, it is our aim, and we hope, yours, to raise £150,000 to help the children of Lai Gow to break free from the cycle of poverty which grips their whole community.

School
• Build three classrooms, a community centre and library
• Furnish classrooms and education supplies (desks, chairs, blackboards, text books, etc.)
• Educational programming and teacher training
• General maintenance

Water and sanitation
• Construction of four clean water systems
• Building of four latrines at the school
• Water and sanitation workshops

Healthcare
• Healthcare education and outreach programmes
• Creation of a community garden
• Establishing a tree nursery
• Community workshops on sustainable agriculture
• Maintenance

Alternative income
• Providing women with the productive resources, training and loans needed to develop micro businesses, so they are supported to send their children to school and free them from child labour.