Farah Khan tweets to support crowdfunding campaign to transform a tribal village located near Mumbai

Filmmaker and choreographer Farah Khan, tweeted in support of the Nargis Dutt Memorial Charitable trust’s campaign to transform Sonave - a tribal village located just 2 hours from Mumbai that has 19^th century infrastructure & amenities.

The objective of the campaign is to raise 5.1L INR to build toilets for tribal children studying in schools there. The current school has just 2 toilets for 200 kids and poses a huge health & hygiene issue. The crowdfunding campaign has already raised 1.55L INR of its goal of 5.1L INR.

She tweeted & appealed to people and her 3.5 MN followers to support this campaign by funding this on Fueladream.com – a Bangalore based crowdfunding campaign. Funders can contribute using credit cards, debit cards or through internet banking & avail of 80G tax benefits.

The ‘Bring a tribal village near Mumbai out of the 19^th century’ campaign on FuelaADream.com is raising funds to build 15 toilets in a Government school in Sonave, a tribal village 2 hours away from Mumbai- one of India’s largest metro cities. At present, there are only 2 toilets for 200 students of the Sonave’s government school. Farah Khan showed her belief in crowdfunding this cause that aims to join hands with the common man to bring better infrastructure to remote village.

Sonave has a population of 3000. This village did not have electricity till 2 years ago! IMAGINE THAT. The facilities and infrastructure in Sonave are nonexistent and the tribals here have no sustainable income to uplift them from this state of backwardness. The village & schools have limited sanitation facilities.  This is leading to drop outs, low attendance, hygiene issues etc. among the students.

Priya Dutt from the Nargis Dutt Foundation said “While for some people, good sanitation is taken for granted, there are many who face immense challenges to even have access to them on a daily basis. Children are the bedrock of our nation & going to scholl for them should be a joy. I would urge everyone to share and support this campaign to transform Sonave & the schools there.“

Ranganath Thota, Founder of Fueladream said  “It is shocking that a human settlement located so close to the financial centre of India has 19^th century infrastructure. When we heard about this from the Nargis Dutt Foundation , we knew we had to do something about it . Crowdfunding is the right platform to get this message across to the people of India & to bring Sonave into the 21^st century”