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Closed 05/11/2021

Brighton Half Marathon - Bright Sparks School India's Running Team

Organised by Bright Sparks

14 fabulous runners aim to raise £4000+ supporting 25 children for a year. Bright Sparks School India provides a free education for children who would otherwise not learn to read and write, significantly improving their life chances.

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Brighton Half Marathon 2021 · 10 October 2021 ·

Closed 05/11/2021

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Bright Sparks is a school in Mohali, Northern India, providing free education to children from a slum area. The charity aims to provide a brighter future and teaches 100+ pupils to read & write in addition to covering 'nominal charges' for a small group to attend mainstream education.

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Bright Sparks is a small primary school in Mohali, north India. It gives a free education to 100+ children from a shanty town who would otherwise miss out completely on school. Many move on to access mainstream education, and all get to experience a safe environment in which to have a childhood, learn and thrive.

The shanty town where the children live is on the banks of a polluted river. Most are working children whose parents are migrant workers: labourers, fruit seller or cleaners. Bright Sparks helps to break this cycle of poverty and illiteracy.

The school is in a quiet residential area, a mile away. It is in rented rooms on the ground floor of an apartment block. Its a small space, so every room gets reorganised for a different use several times in a day. There are five primary classes with five teachers.

It costs 16.5k per annum to run the school including salaries for 7 teachers and rental of the premises. Our 14 Brighton Half Marathon runners aim to raise at least enough funding to cover the school's running costs for 4 months. Learn more about the school here: https://brightsparks.org

Donation summary

Total
£3,029.41
+ £143.75 Gift Aid
Online
£3,029.41
Offline
£0.00
Direct
£90.00
Fundraisers
£2,939.41

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