I along with y friends visited Eklavya Balwadi. It’s a slum school in Andheri. It is specially made for the people of that slum by a trust. We went there for our CSR project.
The experience I had there was a very unique one.
The class was being taken in a small room. I can’t call it a classroom because it was not one.
Something that caught my attention immediately was some female students who seemed to be pretty big for a 4th or 5th standard. While talking to them I realized that 1 of those women was married and had a child who studied in his 1st standard in a reputed convent school. She was here doing schooling as well. When asked why she was studying, she told us that she wanted to help her son and mainly she wanted to communicate with him in English. Now that was impressive. The best part was she got tremendous support from her husband. I was really shocked to hear that.
I always felt that it’s the uneducated family who never support their children, daughter-in-laws or wives for further education. But when I spoke to the staff members out there, they said that the families were very eager to send their children to the school for education. The only problem they face is financial. They don’t have the money and so they either send their children to work in an early age or marry off their daughters.
There were students who worked in the morning as house maids, came directly to school and again went for work in the night. Even with all these problems, they had a broad smile on their face. That inspired me even more.
We are busy with our own problems, but when we actually look around us, we will find people facing so much in life without complaining!
3 comments:
it is said naa "One who has resources doesn't know how to use it and the one who doesn't is dying to use it."
keep up the good work vidhi! :)
hmm very nice, good job vidhi!!!
@Karan
+1
:)
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