In India, three million girls are not in school.
That's one in three girls aged 10-14.
But Educate Girls is changing that.
The prevailling mindset is
that my goat is an asset and my girl is a liability.
And it's really about changing that mindset.
My name is Bhagwanti.
Before I go to school I have to do the housework:
cook meals, wash up, take the goats to graze.
Sometimes I clean the house too.
First and foremost, in every village where we enter
we find a community volunteer.
Our volunteers are young, they're educated, they're passionate.
They themselves really want to see a change.
They go door-to-door and they find every single girl who's out of school.
Then, they actually sit with the community
and make community-based enrolment plans
for bringhing these girls back into school.
Community volunteers or 'Balikas' work with village schools...
to ensure they are safe and have girl's toilets.
They also help tutor the girls.
So, then our Team Balika volunteers come inside
the government school classroom
and they run a remedial in Hindy, English and Maths
to make sure that all the children - girls and boys,
are actually achieving the learning outcomes requiered.
It's about every single girl coming to school.
It's about every single girl contributing to the changing world.
It's about every single girl contributing to the change in the family,
and it's about every single girl contributing to the changes
in community at large.
We are talking about better health, better income.
We are talking about better education, so it's for every single child.
There's like 50, 60 per cent of the girls in Rajasthan who are married
bellow the age of 18.
Nationwide that child marriage percentage is very high.
A lot of the children also, about 10-15 per cent
that are married bellow the age of 10.
I was married off by my parrents at 14.
I was studying in 8th standard. The boy's parrents had agreed
to continue my studies but as soon as my exams results came through
they backed off from their promise.
Neelam is one of the 10,000 Balikas at Educated Girls.
They have helped two million children.
I want to become a teacher after studying and teach other girls
because when you are educated you have courage,
can stand on your own feet, find a job
and support your family financially.
Every extra year of school can boost a woman's income by up to 20%.
In the last 10 years I'm really proud to say that we have found
and brought back to school 150,000 out-of-school girls
that are now connected and are attending school and learning.