{"id":74,"date":"2024-04-18T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.bosathemes.com\/bosa\/charity-02\/?p=415"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:58:38","slug":"donate-to-reduce-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"When a Girl Goes to School, the Whole World Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"74\" class=\"elementor elementor-74\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76782ac6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"76782ac6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a79a78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8a79a78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: uppercase;\">OPTASIA FOUNDATION\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 EVERY GIRL DESERVES TO DREAM<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid #6b3fa0; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 16pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"margin: 20pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 26pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-transform: none; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 25pt;\">When a Girl Goes to School,<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 25pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a;\">the Whole World Changes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0;\">The Untold Power of Educating Girls in Rural India<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;\">By Optasia Foundation Team\u00a0 |\u00a0 March 2025\u00a0 |\u00a0 Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1.75pt solid #6b3fa0; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14pt; margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 30pt;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\">Somewhere in rural India, a girl woke up this morning and wondered if today would be the day she stops going to school. She loves learning. She loves her teacher. But the pressure is mounting \u2014 chores, family expectations, a younger sibling who needs watching. She is twelve years old, and already, the world is asking her to be smaller than she is.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">This is not a story from decades past. This is happening right now \u2014 today \u2014 in villages across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and beyond. And it is one of the most quietly devastating crises in modern India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">At Optasia Foundation, we believe that <\/span><b>educating a girl is not charity \u2014 it is justice.<\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\"> And justice, when it arrives in the form of a pencil and a classroom, can change the trajectory of an entire community.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a; text-transform: none;\">The Numbers That Should Keep Us Up at Night<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">India has made progress in girls\u2019 education. Enrolment numbers have improved. More girls are completing primary school than ever before. But progress is not the same as equality \u2014 and for millions of girls in rural India, the numbers still tell a heartbreaking story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 4pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Girls in rural India drop out of school at rates dramatically higher than boys, especially after puberty<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 4pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Lack of separate, clean toilet facilities in schools is one of the leading causes of adolescent girls dropping out<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 4pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Child marriage \u2014 still prevalent in rural pockets \u2014 cuts short the educational journeys of countless young women<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 4pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">First-generation girl learners face immense family pressure to abandon school for domestic duties<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4pt 0cm 4pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Girls who drop out are significantly more likely to face poverty, poor health outcomes, and limited life choices<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">But here is what the numbers also tell us \u2014 and this is the part that gives us hope: when girls stay in school, everything changes. Not just for them. For their families, their communities, and generations yet to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a; text-transform: none;\">Priya\u2019s World Was the Size of Her Kitchen<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Priya was eleven when her mother first told her that school was \u201cnot for girls like us.\u201d Her older sister had stopped going at thirteen. Her aunt had never gone at all. In her family\u2019s world, a girl\u2019s education ended where the kitchen began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">But Priya had a secret weapon: an Optasia Foundation volunteer named Kavya, who had grown up in a village not unlike Priya\u2019s own \u2014 and who had gone on to study science at a university in Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Kavya didn\u2019t give Priya a speech about empowerment. She simply sat with her after school one afternoon, helped her with her mathematics homework, and shared her own story. She told Priya about the first time she had solved an equation that seemed impossible. About the feeling of standing in a lecture hall and realising she had earned her place there.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1.75pt solid #6b3fa0; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14pt; margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 30pt;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\">\u201cI want that feeling,\u201d Priya told her mother that evening. \u201cI want to know what it feels like to do something no one in our family has ever done.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Her mother paused. She looked at her daughter \u2014 this fierce, curious, bright-eyed girl \u2014 and something shifted. Priya stayed in school. Today, at fourteen, she is top of her class in science and mathematics. She wants to become a doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a; text-transform: none;\">Why Educating Girls Is the Highest-Return Investment Society Can Make<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">This is not sentiment \u2014 this is evidence. Across the world, research consistently shows that girls\u2019 education is the single most powerful driver of social and economic transformation. Here is why:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none;\">Educated Girls Raise Educated Children<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">A girl who receives an education is far more likely to ensure her own children \u2014 sons and daughters alike \u2014 go to school. Education breaks the cycle of poverty not just for one generation, but for all the generations that follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none;\">Educated Girls Marry Later and Choose Freely<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Education delays marriage and first pregnancy, dramatically improving the health and wellbeing of both mothers and children. A girl in school is a girl who has time to grow into herself before she is asked to carry the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none;\">Educated Girls Earn \u2014 and Invest Back<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">When women earn income, they invest a higher proportion back into their families than men do \u2014 in food, healthcare, and education for their children. Educating a girl creates a ripple effect of prosperity that spreads outward for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 14pt 0cm 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #6b3fa0; text-transform: none;\">Educated Girls Change the Story of What Is Possible<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Every girl who completes her education becomes a <\/span><b>living proof<\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\"> for the girls who come after her. She becomes the mirror that Priya needed. She becomes Kavya. She becomes the reason the next generation dares to dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a; text-transform: none;\">What Optasia Does for Girls \u2014 and Why It Works<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">At Optasia Foundation, girls\u2019 education is not a side programme \u2014 it is central to everything we do. Our approach is built around three core beliefs:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Communities must be partners, not targets. <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">We work alongside families to shift mindsets \u2014 not through judgment, but through conversation, trust, and showing what is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Girls need role models they can see themselves in. <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Our volunteer mentorship programme specifically pairs girl students with women who have broken barriers in their own lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Staying in school requires removing real barriers. <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">We work with schools to improve facilities, provide materials, and create environments where girls feel safe, seen, and valued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">In the communities we serve, we have seen girls participate in public speaking events for the first time. We have seen families reconsider early marriage plans after witnessing their daughter\u2019s confidence grow. We have seen girls teach their mothers to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a; text-transform: none;\">Imagine the India That Is Possible<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Imagine a rural India where every girl wakes up knowing that school is for her. Where she walks into a classroom and sees her future reflected back at her. Where her dreams are not constrained by geography, gender, or the accident of which family she was born into.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">That India is not a fantasy. It is being built \u2014 slowly, stubbornly, lovingly \u2014 one girl at a time. By volunteers who show up. By donors who give. By communities who dare to believe that their daughters deserve the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1.75pt solid #6b3fa0; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14pt; margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 30pt;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;\">\u201cEducate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a nation.\u201d \u2014 African Proverb<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 22pt 0cm 8pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #e8670a; text-transform: none;\">Be Part of Her Story<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 13pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Priya is waiting. So is the girl in the village you have never visited, whose name you will never know, but whose life you can still touch. Here is how:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Donate \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Your contribution funds mentorship programmes, school materials, and community outreach that keep girls in school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Volunteer \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Become the Kavya in someone\u2019s story. Your presence and lived experience can change a girl\u2019s entire trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Advocate \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Talk about girls\u2019 education. Share this blog. Make the invisible visible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-indent: -18pt;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><b>Partner \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Organisations and institutions can work with Optasia to scale our reach and deepen our impact on girls\u2019 lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 24pt 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\">\u201cWhen she rises, we all rise. And she is ready to rise \u2014 if only we hold the door open.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"color: #e8670a;\">\u2014 Optasia Foundation<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid #e8670a; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 16pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; border: none; padding: 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #1a1a2e; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;\">Optasia Foundation, Bareilly, India\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Every Girl Deserves to Dream<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPTASIA FOUNDATION\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 EVERY GIRL DESERVES TO DREAM When a Girl Goes to School, the Whole World Changes The Untold Power of Educating Girls in Rural India By Optasia Foundation Team\u00a0 |\u00a0 March 2025\u00a0 |\u00a0 Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh Somewhere in rural India, a girl woke up this morning and wondered if today would be the day she stops going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optasia.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}