Thank You!

We would like to extend a very sincere thank you to our friend Bharat Patel for his generous donation of rs 15000 ($310 USD) for Sunita's emergency spinal surgery.

We still need to collect rs 60000 ($1,235 USD) for her care. Please pass the word on to your friends and family about her case. Every day that passes without further treatment is another day Sunita spends in pain. Let's get this child the treatment she needs.

Sunita’s success story

“Biting my nails, when I sat there, waiting for my turn, watching the players from other countries, with posh standards and all facilities, my heart pumped faster.  And then I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and remembered my time at the school, my friends, my family, my coach… and then I thought... if I can do it there... I can do it anywhere!” 

- Sunita

And she did it! This is a success story of one of our school girls Sunita, who won a Silver in an international Karate Championship, where five different countries participated. It was like a dream come true... a dream that she was allowed to dream at FFLV.

“If I was not at FFLV, I would have got married by now.”
- Sunita

Thank you to you all friends and supporters of FFLV who made this happen for her. Now is time to give a chance to other girls who will, otherwise, never get a chance to tap their talents. These girls have so much potential!

FFLV is always finding new ways to benefit these girls. Our current plan is the Global Giving Competition that we are participating in. We can win this competition if we have maximum number of donors. We just ask you to donate $10.00 and encourage your friends to do the same. We will be automatic winners if we are in the top 6 organizations. We will get a share in the $80,000, which is the prize money and also a chance to be displayed on the Girl Effect website for one complete year!

Donating is very easy. You can pay by paypal, cheque, credit card, or a gift card here.

If you are a USA citizen you can also donate by sending a simple text from your mobile phone. Simply type GIVE 8803 to 80088 to donate $10 to Prevent Child Marriage, Educate 75 Girls in India. Message and data rates may apply. Only works for US mobile phones.

To keep yourself updated on where we stand, please follow this link. 

Thank You!

We would like to thank the organization “Una Scuola in Himalaya – Amici di Photoksar” for their generous donation of 310,00 Euro for Sunita's surgery.

We still need to collect 75,000 rs ($1,500 USD) to cover the cost of her next operation: placing a shunt to remove fluid from the brain. We will keep you updated on her recovery, but in the meantime we ask that you please donate whatever you can to help cover the cost of her treatment. You can use the yellow Donate button on this page to easily contribute to her care. Please also let your friends and family know about her case.

Educate 75 Girls in India

Dear Friends of FFLV, I have a great news for you!!. Please share with all your friends that if they simply Text GIVE 8803 to 80088, they donate $10 towards our project Prevent Child Marriage. Donating towards this noble cause was never easier!!! Educate 75 Girls in India. Only works for US mobile phones. Here is a chance to make some real difference with the small donation. It is the number of donors and not the amount that makes the difference. If we win the challenge it opens doors of opportunity for hundreds of other poor girls. Please share this with all your friends. Let us all join hands to make it happen!!! To know more, click here:

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/prevent-child-marriage-send-75-girls-to-school-in-india/

Global Giving’s Girl Effect Challenge

We need your help with a great opportunity for our girls!

FFLV has been chosen to compete in Global Giving’s Girl Effect Challenge. Funded by the Nike Foundation and many other large well-known donors, The Girl Effect has been raising awareness around the world over the past two years about the importance of investing in girl's education and the potential this has to change the developing world. It has attracted thousands of followers.

From today until November 15th, FFLV will be appealing to donors, supporters and friends to make a small donation to our project through the Girl Effect Challenge web page on Global Giving. We will be competing with 59 other girl-focused projects to attract the highest number of individual donors to support our project.  The six that have the most donors by November 15 will be featured on the Girl Effect Fund's Global Giving fundraising page for all of 2012 and will get a grant of about $80,000 from the fund next year.

I know our work is important to you so please help us become one of the winners! You can do so by going to our project page and making a small donation ($17 minimum) and then telling ten of your friends about it and asking them to do the same!  

When you donate, you are helping the school in more than one way: Your donation will help us financially and counts as a vote for FFLV in the challenge.  The publicity and funds we'll receive if we win will enable us to help even more girls next year and beyond!

If you want to follow the competition and track our progress, please join our Facebook group.

To learn more about the Girl Effect, watch this great video.

We’re excited to be participating in the Challenge. With the help of friends like you, we can win it for our girls in Vrindavan!