Help young females from financially-strained families attend the three-and-a-half-year General Nurse-Midwifery (GNM) diploma at Guru Nanak College of Nursing in Dhahan-Kaleran, Punjab, India.

Whether you donate $5 or $5000, you WILL make an impact by transforming REAL lives of REAL people.

Your tax-deductible donation will:

- Help uplift families from poverty

- Give young women independence and confidence

- Add healthcare personnel resources to rural Punjabi communities

- Boost local economies in rural Punjab

Some background:

- Girls in rural India are rarely educated beyond primary grades.

- Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Educational Trust (GN Trust) offers reduced fees for its primary and secondary school students whose families are in dire economic situations.

- After graduating from high school, families often can't afford to send their daughters to higher education. Instead, they are married off.

- GN Trust operates the Guru Nanak College of Nursing, which offers a three-and-a-half-year General Nurse-Midwifery (GNM) diploma, as well as a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSc.N) degree and a Post Basic B.Sc. program.

- This fundraiser is to help young, disadvantaged girls attend the three-and-a-half-year General Nurse-Midwifery (GNM) diploma program.

- The Guru Nanak College of Nursing diploma program is recognized by the Punjab Government, the Punjab Nurses Registration Council in Chandigarh and the Indian Nursing Council in New Delhi.

- It costs approximately $1200 CAD to send one student to nursing school per calendar year.

- Student jobs and loans are non-existent in rural India.

- We want to send 10 students to nursing school for the 2023 - 2024 academic year.

Read Reena and Tarandeep's story: https://www.cies.ca/working-widow-improve-daughters-future/

--> The two exemplify just one of thousands of families who need our help.