'A Girl Can Touch The Sky' documentary - Impact Fund

'A Girl Can Touch The Sky' is a feature-length documentary raising awareness about the challenges, girls all over India, face accessing education.

If you have made it to this page, you have most likely seen the film on the BIG SCREEN at one of our recent screenings.

If you feel moved to help change a girl's life today, please donate so we can support the charities featured in the film to do the amazing work they do.

Impact to date:

The film has been viewed by over 4000 households, selected for 11 International Film Festivals, and won awards including being nominated for a Royal Television Society award.

All this has been to draw attention to the issue of gender discrimination in education for girls in India and around the world.

To date, we have raised and donated £19,278.79 to the charities featured in the film.

These charities are doing amazing work to create a world where every girl has the opportunity to pursue her education and is supported by her family and community to do so.

This photo shows Shireen, who shares in the film that she wants to become a police officer so she can arrest people who force child marriage on girls, cutting their education short.

How you can help:

If you are moved to do so, PLEASE DONATE so we can continue to support the charities featured in the film.

Your donation can change the future life trajectory of the girls being supported.

Please do what you can.

If you would like the film screened in your city, don't hesitate to get in touch so we can collaborate to make this happen.

Some facts:

In India, there are 12 million girls born every year. 

3 million don't make it to their first birthday and 1 million don't make it to their fifteenth birthday.

Girls are less likely to receive immunization, nutrition or medical treatment.

The fear of sexual violence is a contributing factor to 47% of girls being married under the legal age of 18 which almost always cuts their education and any dreams they had for themselves short.

Very little is being done to engage men in the sort of transformational work needed to create a safer world for women and girls and to redefine masculinity at a time when it is needed most.

Message from the film's director, Ravinol Chambers:

"I met some amazing young women in the course of making the film, many of whose stories you will see on the big screen. Incredibly brave, confident, powerful young women stepping up as leaders and role models for others to follow, so that no girl is left behind."

Anuradha lives Vrindavan and had to fight for her life as her father locked her up so she couldn't run away before her forced marriage at 13 years old.

Rashmi also lives in Vrindavan and had to fight to pursue her education when her father set the date for her and her 3 sisters to get married at the same time. She was only 14 years old. 

I also met some great men and boys who are trying to help create a fairer world for women and girls. We need both men and women to be part of a collective solution if we want to change 'the way it has always been.' 

What will your funds support?

SHRI RADHA MADHAV SARVJAN WELFARE TRUST - A grassroots education charity run by Anuradha (the lead contributor in the film), where she provides education and employment skills to the village girls in the rural area where she lives.

EQUAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - a charity whose mission is to ensure that every boy in India is gender equitable.

https://ecf.org.in/