IIMPACT’s Quarterly Report for January – March 2011 is dedicated to all our talented, sincere and hardworking teachers who teach their wards with enthusiasm and passion. In remote villages, it is our teachers who are the main motivators and educators. They inculcate in the girls the important habit of coming regularly to the Learning Centres

Urmila , a seven year old IIMPACT student in Orissa is living proof of the fact that even extremely young children can be positively influenced by the actions of their peer group. Before IIMPACT came into her life Urmila could be seen helping her widowed mother with housework.  She had lost her father at the

Bryan Adams, the world famous Grammy award winning singer-songwriter, is an ardent supporter of IIMPACT. The Bryan Adams Foundation and IIMPACT together educate 600 out-of-school and never-been-to-school in the villages of Jaipur district in Rajasthan. Bryan Adams Foundation and IIMPACT thus share a common belief that education is the best gift that a child can

An article in the current issue of Time Magazine, titled “To Fight Poverty, Invest in Girls“,  talks about the importance of investing in girls to reduce poverty and disease in the developing world.   Across most of the developing world, very few girls are educated and most end up tending house, cleaning and cooking by

On January 7, 2011, we visited the Kankadkhedi and Raiveli centers of IIMPACT. Walking into the first center was like walking into a temple. There were throngs of people there to greet us – children, their parents, village elders – all with smiles and the same glint of hope in their eyes. They garlanded us