"However much a mother may love her children, it is all but impossible for her to provide high-quality child care if she herself is poor and oppressed, illiterate and uninformed, anaemic and unhealthy, has five or six other children, lives in a slum or shanty, has neither clean water nor safe sanitation, and if she is without the necessary support either from health services, or from her society, or from the father of her children." -Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, "The Asian Enigma"
In current day India, women and girls receive far less education than men, despite the fact that India's constitution guarantees free primary school education for both boys and girls up to the age of 14. The truth is that primary education in India is not universal, and, alarmingly, the documented literacy rate for women in Uttar Pradesh is lower than 25 percent.
To further aggravate the problem of a lack of education in rural India for girls is the fact that many villages do not have a school and fewer than one-third of India's primary and middle-school teachers are women. When schools are located at a distance, when teachers are male, and when girls are expected to study alongside boys, parents are often unwilling to expose their daughters the potential assualt on their modest traditions.
With more and more primary schools being built within villages that have a dire need for the same, the Hoshiari Devi Girls Intercollege proudly stands among those which is devoted to the cause of educating young girls, giving them the skills to enter the workforce, and most importantly, giving them the means with which they will be able to empower themselves and their families.
