Situated on the Nepal border, Rupaidiha is a dimunitive town with a predominantly Hindu population of 25,000 people.

The children of the rich and the poor and downtrodden now sit together and study in harmony experiencing God's love for the first time. Also for the first time the dalit (outcaste) can avail a quality education and be able to hold his/her head high and secure an employment. Here barriers are being broken, that have gripped this area all along. Gender bias, and barriers of caste, and class are strongholds no more and a new life is being breathed into the village. Education has broken the fetters that had long since bound the people and children of Rupaidiha and its surrounding villages even touching Nepal.

The Assembly of God Church School is a senior secondary school affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi. After humble beginnings, we opened the school to the public on 2nd July, 1988 and immediately enrolled 127 children. Today we have more than 700 children with almost 70% of the children crossing the border each day. At AGCS we strive to provide a strong Christian based education to the poor and needy children especially focusing on the needy girl child often neglected in out patriarchal society. The school begins each day with prayer and praise to our living God.

The Adult Women’s Literacy Programme is run by the AG Church School staff and children, who go to the villages to teach the illiterate ladies. The women are provided with notebooks and other learning material. Assessments are done every year and the adult women students are awarded. Funded by the students themselves we have educated 350 women so far, from 9 teaching centers in villages within a radius of 5 kms. This programme has been very successful in educating the village women.

In an amazing way God has opened the door for us to have a free english education center in the heart of the village on land donated by low-caste Hindus. We have more than 150 children attending this center for 2 hours everyday. And now yet another door has opened for us to reach the people in a muslim village on land that is being donated to us by a muslim lady! How amazing is God's providence! The people recognize and realize the need for education at last.

As gender bias spreads its vicious tentacles predominantly into rural areas like ours, protecting and rescuing the girl child is the need of the hour. At SEEMA which is a training school for girls and women we strive to empower the abused and illiterate woman.

Even after nearly 60 years of Independence, India is still not liberated enough. Deep routed ancient beliefs continue to dominate our lives. An overwhelming majority of Indians, rich or poor, long for a son because they believe that they can attain nirvana or go to heaven only when a son performs funeral rights. Yet another problem is that in our patriarchal social structure, a daughter is never as welcome as a son. Investing in the education of a girl child is perceived as something that has no return. Socio-cultural factors constrain women, more so in the rural and semi-urban areas, besides reinforcing a negative self image. More than 6 million female foetuses have been killed in 20 years. That is the number of Jews killed in the holocaust. Inaugurated on July 11th 2005, Mahima Niwas is a home for the needy girls who come from very poor and backward tribal families from the rural areas of Far-West Nepal and India.

The tribal girls that are being educated here are the first from their tribe to be educated in an English medium environment in AGCS. We currently have 18 girls from Nepal, 7 girls from Jharkhand, India and one girl from South India. We are extending the home and will be taking more tribal girls next year.
We are committed to serving the needs in the above areas. Thank you for joining hands with us to serve the children and spread the love of Jesus.

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