Project Mala was founded in 1989 as an action programme for the abolition of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in India. We provide education for children in the carpet weaving belt. Our programme includes education up to secondary school level and healthcare facilities. 80% of the funding comes from individual child sponsors.
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There have been two major competitive sporting events for school children in our area recently, the aim being to promote an interest and enthusiasm for sport among the children of India...
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The announcement of Class 10 and Class 12 Uttar Pradesh Board exam results is always a tense moment for us,...
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When it comes to performance and results, the students of Project Mala consistently exceed our expectations...
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Anne Gilmour, Education Trustee, describes her initiatives to encourage children to enjoy reading stories...
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All the Project Mala team wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025.
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Anne Gilmour, Education Trustee, describes one of the ways she brings out the best in the children...
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The Indian Talent Olympiad has recently ranked Project Mala School among the top 1,000 schools in India out of a pool of 150,000...
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As is customary each year, we received 3121 applications, with 2635 coming from external applicants seeking admission to our schools...
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In Class 12, all 41 Project Mala students attained a pass mark in the 1st division. The results were exceptional but one student, Rajnandini, ...
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Over the past few years the Indian government has brought in a universal national ID card which, together with a more rigorous system for registration of births...
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We are pleased at the increasing number of visits sponsors and supporters are making to our schools. Recently we have Lauren from Totzke Ltd, a corporate patron and Siddhartha Bose...
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It is with great pride that we announce our second position among 396 schools in Varanasi District...
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This is a writeup by one of our visitors, Mr Ben Garland, who spent a few days in our schools at the end of last year...
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After a scorching summer (45 degrees), our children have returned to school. This year, Uttar Pradesh experienced one of the hottest summers on record and so different to the day we held our admissions...
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As we have had to make the decision to focus on the most able children from the poorest homes in the districts that our schools serve...
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For those sponsors who also follow us on facebook, you will have seen this lovely film the children did of their teachers...
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The young artist who drew the picture is Rajnandini. She joined our Hasra primary school in 2014.....
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Sunita was a pupil of our Guria school where she made it all the way through to grade 12 and passed out with flying colours.....
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In particular, how both children and parents appreciate quality education and how we still have far more applications than places....
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You will be pleased to know that all the schools are now fully operational again after the disruption caused by Covid...
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Sibu Ali decided that the best way he could show his gratitude to his old school was by conducting a hairdressing camp. He hired three local barbers and the equipment...
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Our students have suffered badly through the pandemic, from the school closures and the difficulty of continuing to study at home with limited technology and teacher contact...
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As we do not have the resources to keep every pupil from primary school through to class 12 graduation, we have to set competitive exams in classes 5, 8 and 10 to select which students will most benefit from the limited number of places...
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It has been very difficult to enrol the students this year because of the lockdown. We were given some relaxation in early 2021 but it is not enough to complete all the admission process...
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Although locally there seem to have been few documented cases of Coronavirus, the school is taking health and safety very seriously....
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We are very grateful to all our supporters who made the fundraising on the Christmas Challenge a success....
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Deepali joined Project Mala in primary school in 2011 and it was immediately apparent that she was particularly talented...
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This year the Christmas Challenge is supported by a number of well known celebrities...
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This App will enable sponsors to see profiles, photos, family details and reports, all without having to visit our website...
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It is always a pleasure to write about children who make good use of the education we provide, to the benefit of themselves and their families. ...
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If that sounds as if our staff are managing their remote teaching effortlessly, and with the help of up-to-date technology, let me tell you just what a struggle it has been for teachers to help their students with their studies throughout the pandemic...
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Kavita is a bright child from a very poor family and in so many ways epitomises the type of children we are trying to help. She is ambitious for education but unfortunately her parents do not recognise the importance of educating girls. ...
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Most children, when they join us, have only ever heard their parents and grandparents speaking the local village dialect and consider even Hindi a foreign language...
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In the beginning, Project Mala only offered three years of primary education, so pupils left us after completing class five. Recently a past pupil from those early days, a boy called Sibu, wrote to our Facebook site...
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Each year when we invite children to apply for a place in our schools, we also take the opportunity to collect more information on the children and their families in the 80 villages in our catchment area...
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The lockdown in most countries is proving difficult,but it hits the poorest people far worse. For people in India who exist below the poverty line, life has suddenly become much more challenging...
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Schools across the country were told to close immediately, so with little time to organise things, we sent the children home and began to prepare the staff for a long period of isolation...
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These are strange times here at Project Mala Schools,India. As the Corona Virus plays havoc with the social and economic structure of India, foreign visas suspended,travel discouraged and all schools closed for the near future, it seemed impossible that anything more could happen to disrupt the beginning of the new academic year....
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Although society is changing in India and in the cities girls are getting the same opportunities as boys, here in rural Uttar Pradesh life in the villages continues much as it has for hundreds of years...
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On Saturday 13th June we are holding a special curry dinner in the historic Tithe Barn, York.Anil, CEO of Project Mala, India, and Diptiman, IT and website development expert, will also demonstrate the new Mala App...
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As 2019 is the second year we have had children passing out of class 12 capable of going on to IIT (India Institutes of Technology) courses...
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Modern technology is rapidly expanding our communication network. One of the ways we are now using is social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram....
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One of our long term Indian supporters, Obeetee, is holding an exhibition of their new collection of hand woven rugs in London and has asked if we can give a talk to their customers on the work of Project Mala....
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As part of our commitment to being a child centred organisation, each Project Mala school has a school council...
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In July we wrote that we were worrying about a lack of water, as the school wells ran dry and we were forced to resort to bringing tanks of water in by lorry. ...
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Mala schools are experimental in nature and innovative in style. One of the greatest innovations has been to establish pre-schools for girls. This has been a great success with the girls from pre-school doing exceptionally well in the primary entrance exams...
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We would like to mark the passing of Mr Edward Oakley, a long term friend and financial supporter of Project Mala...
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Recently our newspapers have been full of the heatwave in Europe where temperatures are said to be reaching mid 40°C. In India it is normally very hot in June but this year has set new records with temperatures regularly hitting 50°C. This has brought renewed problems for the running of our schools...
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Each year we seem to have more children to disappoint. This year was no exception with well over 3,000 children applying for just 547 places. ....
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Pradeep is the Mala student who has been attending Foremarke Hall (Repton’s Preparatory School) in the UK since September 2018....
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Inflation in India has been with us for many years but the increasing strength of the pound, has offset this...
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The main aim of Project Mala is to enable underprivileged children in rural India to lift themselves out of poverty...
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Pradeep started at Foremarke in September 2018 and his first term report has just been published.
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The opening of the secondary school at Patehra was a major milestone in the development of Project Mala.
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Recently Mukesh Dubey, Education Officer for Project Mala schools, sent me some photos of a group of senior pupils who had recently left school after their class 12 exams...
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