The focus of this project is “Education” and the primary target group are children in the 6-18 age groups. The focus is education because the provision of bicycles contributes extensively towards supporting the education of children. Once they have bicycles they are able to commute to school easily and study over there with ease.

To a small extent this project works towards reducing the likelihood of youth unemployment in India. When the children start attending all their classes on time and prevent the occurrence of drop outs then there is a higher possibility that they will not remain idle once they are done with their studies. A continuous education will motivate them to pursue their higher studies and eventually apply for a job in a field of their interest. This way the influence of detrimental activities stays away from them and they progress in life with a positive state of mind.

The main objective of this project is to provide bicycles to children in the 6-18 age group and they form the main target group for this activity. We are only focusing on bicycles because there is a serious need for this component, especially in the rural areas of Andhra Pradesh. RRHEDS has experience in providing supportive assistance to children in terms of providing them with school-going material and paying for their after-school tuition fees. We have done sensitization campaigns that highlight these aspects thoroughly. Additionally, in previous years we have supported some children with bicycles.

However, the need for bicycles is increasing especially in the rural areas where the children are living far away from their schools. The secondary objective here is to ease the financial burden of the parents of these children. The parents are unable to afford bicycles which can at times be very costly. On their meagre income they are barely able to fend for themselves and their families. Considering this it is important to motivate the children by providing them with bicycles, so that they can continue their studies uninterrupted.

Each Bicycle Cost is Rs.5,500

Requirement of Bicycles is 1000

This brings us to the focus of this proposal which is the provision of bicycles to children coming from impoverished families. This proposal has the children’s welfare in mind because we want to make their school-going experience as pleasant as possible. In many cases the distance between the school and the village is too much. The children are spending a major portion of the day in travelling and by the time they get to school they are tired, both mentally and physically. As a result, they tend to sleep in running class and their attention span in class is severely affected as they are tired, Due to the persistence of this continuous feeling of stress they are steadily dropping out of their schools and this applies for the primary and high schools and the intermediate students.