AchieveMents: The rural population in the neighbourhood of Hathras town especially minorities suffer from the persistent problems of extreme poverty low levels of education including children failing to complete even school education poor health care and limited employment opportunities
Problems are cyclical the lack of a good education limits employment prospects and the acquisition of new skills trapping them in low paid traditional jobs This leads to a lifetime of low wages making it difficult to pay their childrens school fees or health care As a result those children who start school often fail to complete it and then face the same challenges as their parents Thus poverty pervades across generations As an obvious fall out of poverty and illiteracy these communities get trapped in various social evils such as dowry system in marriages gambling drinking drug addiction tobacco chewing superstitions and child labour etc creating thereby further complications in the efforts for their uplift
Scenario of women education and health conditions is even worse Illiteracy among Muslim women is substantially higher in the north Indian villages than in the entire country More than 85 percent are illiterate according to survey reports Less than 15 percent of Muslim women have completed Grade-8 and less than 10 percent have completed Grade 10
The NUES is trying to address this complex situation through the medium of education The NUES has so far successfully established twelve schools of Primary and Senior Secondary levels 10 plus 2 affiliated to CBSE imparting quality education
NUES organizes medical camps free of charges for these poor and downtrodden communities every year for eye check up treatment and cataract surgery dentistry general medicine awareness against HIV tuberculosis malaria dengue and cancer especially breast cancer among women NUES is also providing vocational training to boys and girls in sewing & embroidery house keeping for girls computer applications electrician plumber and fitter for boys for empowerment of less educated youth
IMPACT
Parents who earlier sent their children to work in private homes farms tea shops and factories to earn their daily bread are now sending them to schools and a visible spirit among them for educating their wards is a most welcome achievement
Due to the growing number of educated children illiteracy is fading out from these communities
The number of girl students in our schools is steadily increasing so much so that the strength of the girls has gone up in some of our schools from zero to 42 percent
A number of students after their Secondary Senior Secondary opt for higher education both professional and non professional courses etc Many students have got good jobs which is improving their social status
This educational movement has boosted morale of the poor oppressed and illiterate communities in the area which is historical As a result this weaker section is now finding direction confidence aspirations and hope for a better future and is becoming productive and useful participant in Indias development
