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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Twosome giving RTE to these kids by Aditya Dev

Twosome giving RTE to these kids by Aditya Dev

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published Published on Nov 13, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 13, 2011

They are the children of migrant labourers, security guards, maids and gardeners for whom access to formal education would have been a distant goal, had it not been for two women who started teaching them under a tree in Sector 56, two years ago.

The twosome are effectively giving these underprivileged children their right to education without any fanfare.

From a measly five-six students, their number has now grown to over 100. Every evening they gather near the footpath of Sector 56, just a few hundred metres away from the police station, and sit on durries in different groups according to their class levels.

One of their teachers is Kusum Kohli, the founder of the school, who after running a school for 20 years in Purnia (Bihar), shifted here just four years ago.

Like any other school-going kids, they do their homework and diligently listen to what their teaching them. Kohli has divided the students into various classes from nursery to Class III after giving a test and judging their calibre. Many of them have now started speaking in English as well.

Kohli says when she came here after leaving her school in Bihar in the care of her friends in 2007, she used to feel miserable at the sight of children begging in front of a temple where she was a frequent visitor.

Being an educationist most of her life, it occurred to her that she could teach them. Kohli started assembling such children from nearby areas and with the help of Vandana Choudhary (an animation artist), whom she met at the temple, started teaching them.

Kohli says, "We could not teach them for a very long time as their parents forced them into begging. But, at the same, we were approached by construction workers and maids asking us to teach their children. There was no looking back and we have been teaching them since then."

"Many students, being children of migrant labourers, have come and gone. But our classes are always jampacked and we are happy about that," she adds.

Kohli is all praise for 31-year-old Chaudhary who is ably assisting her. Chaudhary, who has recently delivered a child, says, "I love to interact with children and teach them."

Kohli says they have been getting occasional support from corporate houses with a couple of them being regular. She has recently formed an NGO by the name of Ghar Angna, Ek Pyara Sapna, of which she is the president.

While the classes are going on with volunteers from a management school and their own volunteers, Kohli says she sometimes worries about the safety and security of children and teachers sitting out in the open.

She adds that she is looking for support from good Samaritans in getting a place for the running the classes.

The Times of India, 13 November, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Twosome-giving-RTE-to-these-kids/articleshow/10710514.cms


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