Campaign launched for spread of education on wheels by Ghanshyam Oli Child Welfare Society
Listen to this articleCampaign launched for spread of education on wheels by Ghanshyam Oli Child Welfare Society
B.D.Kasniyal
Pithoragarh, Feb 24
Pithoragarh District Magistrate Reena Joshi flagged off a vehicle of Ghanshyam Oli Child Welfare Society, a premier social voluntary organisation of the district to start a campaign for spread of education on wheel, here today.
“The programme that has been launched on the occasion of 9th anniversary of the society and 64th anniversary of creation of Pithoragarh district, will reach out to those children who remained deprived of basic education due to constrains of means. It would cover the children of labourers from outside of the district working here and will link them with mainstream of education and society,” claimed Girish Oli, president of the society.
“The society has been working and preparing on this issue for the last 5 years and finally launched the programme today,” said Girish Oli.
Ghanshyam Oli Child Welfare Society is well known Non-Government Organisation (NGO) that is active in the sphere of eradicating child labour and child beggary.”To spread awareness in these two spheres, our society have visited a total of 119 towns of the country and ran over 14000 awareness programmes and made aware over 4 lakh children on education, in the last nine years of existence of the society,” said Ajay Oli, the founder of society.
The barefoot travels of society founder Ajay Oli have been recorded in the ‘Limca book of world records’, ‘India book of records’ and have also won National youth award.” The society has a target to provide basic education to over 17000 children through this move,” claimed Ajay Oli.
Pithoragarh District Magistrate Reena Joshi lauded the programme and said that it will ensure basic education to poor to the deprived students of the district.” We were in dire need of such a move that could care for poor students of their basic educational needs,” said the DM. Ghanshyam Oli child welfare society also runs child homes for poor children in the district.
