Ebook: Reaching for the sky: empowering girls through education

Since 2003 a privately funded high school has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh, in northeast India. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, tells the stories of how the school has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their families. Most important, this book tells those stories from the perspectives of the girls themselves, rather than through a remote academic perspective. -- publisher's website;Letting girls learn -- The girls' own stories -- Education myself : valuable lessons for self and others -- The story of Prerna -- Building a universe of care -- Enabling learning : building a web of support -- Developing a feminist consciousness : dialogical circles of empowerment -- Finding self, finding home : using drama for self-work -- Empowerment as a social act : from self-work to social work -- Learning outcomes and beyond -- Scaling Prerna -- Reframing girls' education -- Epilogue: Educating boys for gender justice -- Appendixes. A. Caste in India : a brief note. B. Methodology. C. Historical backdrop of girls' education