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Post Office offers Girl Child Insurance
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A friend just emailed me about a very interesting approach to supporting girls in India. The Indian Postal Service may soon start offering girl child insurance, whereby the girl gets Rs 1 lac ($2,500) at the age of 18 and some kind of conditional cash transfer to the parents for bringing up the girl and delaying marriage till after 18! I hope this can start reversing some of the incentives for female child infanticide. Click below to read more:
http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/19/stories/2006121902311100.htm
Thanks for the posts
Keely,
Glad you're continuing to post on your blog. Maybe it could now be called, "From Arusha to Geneva" now that you're at Bamboo Finance in the land of watches and chocolate! Thanks, too, for the info. on myC4 - passed it on to an NGO/colleague in Uganda after noticing they have an office in Kampala. More posts, please! Always great to see what's going on in this space.