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This proposal provides a glimpse of the general existing condition of women in India, the lack of accessible education and medical facilities, and the change that the Nagina Institute can bring. Upon completion, this project would be the model for India and subsequently for projects around the world.

Eight or more years of education for women encourages marriages at an older age and broadens women's outlook. This results in lower birth rates and a change in perspective, where women view themselves as individuals and not just a family member.

There is ample evidence that connects increased economic knowledge with economic opportuinty. Both empower women.

The government of India has acknowledged in a recent report by its department of women and children that, in a culture that canonizes sons and dreads the birth of daughters, to be born female comes perilously close to being born less than human. While women in the US and Europe today measure discrimination by pay scales and seats in the corporate boardroom, women in the third world measure mortality rates, lack of opportunity and poverty levels.

Poverty is directly related to the inequality of women. For development to succeed, attitudes towards women must change.

Evidence shows that educated women have fewer and healthier children.

Education is probably the largest single contributor to enhancing the status of women and thereby promoting development. Higher status for women also has benefits in terms of improved health, better wages and higher GNP, less government programs, and greater influence in family decision making.

The cycle of illiteracy, disease, malnutrition, neglect and the population explosion could be broken only if we take a keen interest in helping change the course of daily living for millions of women around the world.

As a start in the goal of empowering women, a pilot program will be established in a remote village in India. Suriyawan, the initial site of this project has a population of between 5,000 to 10,000.