The astounding success of the Prerna Girls School program is a lesson to many others working for education, women’s empowerment and solving a host of issues identified in the Millennium Development Goals as critical: health, education, poverty eradication, literacy, population pressure, environmental degradation, to name a few.

Perhaps most importantly, Prerna Girls School also serves as an empowering location for reducing forced marriages on young women – one of the harshest of forced treatments for young women.