<p> Jennifer Graham, wife of Canadian High Commissioner in India, said that everybody has a right to clean air and efforts need to made to improve.<br /><br /></p>.<p>At an event to donate bicycles to schoolgirls, she said bicycles as a mode of transport are important as each one of them takes off one vehicle from the road.<br /><br />“Education is a right of all girls and basic requirement for empowerment,” said Graham, appreciating project Umang of NGOs Aarohan and United Way.<br /><br />As many as 150 school girls were donated bicycles under the project aimed at empowerment of adolescent girls through education, life skills and livelihood.<br /><br />Students excited<br />Fatimah, a class 12 student in Malviya Nagar government school, was excited about her new set of wheels.<br /><br />“I will reach school and home fast,” she said, adding that earlier she was forced to walk a long distance.<br /><br />Ruchi, a class 9 student, also is looking forward to use the cycle. “I will not need my brother’s help to reach school now,” she said.<br /><br />Aarohan founder Rani Patel said: The purpose of distributing cycles is not just to make the travel to school easy, but also to contribute to the fight pollution. We can support the Delhi government’s odd-even scheme also.”<br /><br />Lack of transport and long distance from home are some of the reasons that force girls to drop out of schools, she said.<br /></p>
<p> Jennifer Graham, wife of Canadian High Commissioner in India, said that everybody has a right to clean air and efforts need to made to improve.<br /><br /></p>.<p>At an event to donate bicycles to schoolgirls, she said bicycles as a mode of transport are important as each one of them takes off one vehicle from the road.<br /><br />“Education is a right of all girls and basic requirement for empowerment,” said Graham, appreciating project Umang of NGOs Aarohan and United Way.<br /><br />As many as 150 school girls were donated bicycles under the project aimed at empowerment of adolescent girls through education, life skills and livelihood.<br /><br />Students excited<br />Fatimah, a class 12 student in Malviya Nagar government school, was excited about her new set of wheels.<br /><br />“I will reach school and home fast,” she said, adding that earlier she was forced to walk a long distance.<br /><br />Ruchi, a class 9 student, also is looking forward to use the cycle. “I will not need my brother’s help to reach school now,” she said.<br /><br />Aarohan founder Rani Patel said: The purpose of distributing cycles is not just to make the travel to school easy, but also to contribute to the fight pollution. We can support the Delhi government’s odd-even scheme also.”<br /><br />Lack of transport and long distance from home are some of the reasons that force girls to drop out of schools, she said.<br /></p>
