Childhood is a fiction for children in Malda District. By age 12,
girls are married off or even sold to men from far-off states.
Their impoverished parents, once child laborers themselves,
rarely see the value of education.
TOGETHER
we are
BREAKING
the intergenerational
cycle
of
POVERTY
But thanks to donors like you, that mindset is changing. In
2013, IDRF completed a new building for a primary school run
by our partner Economic Rural Development Society. Parents
are rushing to enroll their children.
Together, we are breaking the intergenerational cycle of
poverty. “Now [parents] can ascertain the value of education
and what they have missed... they don’t ݅