346 Covid orphans in Lucknow to get free education and stay in school
By IANS |
0 Views
Affirmative action to help orphaned and abandoned kids become self-reliant. Image Source: IANS News
Lucknow, July 21 : The City International School and the NGO, DEVI Sansthan, has stepped forward to provide free education to those 346 children of Lucknow who have lost either one or both their parents during the pandemic.
Sunita Gandhi, the founder of the school and the NGO had approached the UP Women and Child Welfare Directorate with an offer to educate the Covid orphans and she was forwarded a list of 346 children who have lost either a breadwinner parent or both parents, or have an income of less than 3 lakh per annum as decided under the UP Mukhya Mantri Bal Vikas Yojana.