Dalit education

India’s outcaste Dalits have injustice, indignity, discrimination and been made to feel they are outcasts. Operation Mercy, the development wing of Operation Mobilisation India, has brought hope for people from the lowest caste who have been referred to as "dogs" living in the slums, and treated as inhuman as depicted in the film Slumdog Millionare
Operation Mercy's website says "Without education many of the children of the Dalit communities of India will be condemned to a life of bonded labour, begging, continual abuse and hopelessness. An English medium education opens the doors to opportunities that would have been forever denied to them. This education is based on a Christian Worldview and value system and lifts these children out of the oppressive caste inferiority mindset and gives them spiritual freedom, social equality and personal dignity."
After ten years, the first 28 students to begin and complete their studies at the schools have just graduated. Their smiling faces during a special graduation ceremony bore testimony to their transformed lives. OM is responding to the Dalits’ cries for help and now oversees 80 schools across India that are providing 14,000 Dalit children with an education.
Many of us who went to the Stand heard from Dalit Freedom Network President Dr. Joseph D’souza tell stories of those Dalits who had tragic stories but had begun to find freedom, hope and life in all its fulness. God is loving and just and the example of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit is working today is the lives of these people. Wow.
To see more or sponsor a child see http://www.daliteducation.org/