Child Exploitation – An ongoing fight against injustices faced by neglected children in India
What comes to your mind when you think back to your childhood years? Many of us would immediately be taken
Read moreWhat comes to your mind when you think back to your childhood years? Many of us would immediately be taken
Read moreNavigating work from home and the new normal these past few months has been difficult for everyone. The social sector,
Read moreIn the next story of GoBarefootRealHeroes we are sharing an inspiring story of Subhankar. “Hello. I am Subhankar from Lantern Edusports Foundation. We work with the school leaders and teachers in the underprivileged communities of Maharashtra. While growing up, I always felt that I was privileged to get where I was, considering that my mother was from a scheduled caste family in a remote village and my father from a family who migrated to India during the 1947 partition and had to start all over again. I had a privileged life because my parents took the pain and fought against all odds to get educated. A software engineer by qualification, I joined Accenture after finishing graduation. Two years into my job and after some soul searching, I realized I wanted to do a job in which I could contribute directly to remove inequity in the society and thus I joined the Teach For India Fellowship. My first introduction to students was in 2014 when I joined the Teach For India Fellowship. I was placed in an 8th-grade classroom in Ja’Fari English High School, Shivaji Nagar, Govandi. There were 140 bright-eyed adolescent kids that I was responsible for. The students were very restless, it was difficult for them to see instant results from hard-work and that constant disappointment had normalized an attitude of disrespect in the classroom for them. Some of them were slow learners and in response to the apathy their immediate environment had shown to their problems – the students had given up on studies themselves. I would go as far as to say that they would not be in school if they had a choice. Given this tough community landscape, no
Read moreIn the second story of #GoBarefootRealHeroes we are sharing the story of Preeti Chaudhary. “My passion for kids can be tracked back almost a decade ago when I used to teach at a Toddler’s school while pursuing my MBA course. The only thing which got me doing that job was just one simple fact My Love for kids.I get fascinated by their innocent smile and it gave me immense pleasure spending time with them. My course got completed, then I got married and life was pacing ahead, But the passion was still deep down within me. One fine day, I got to see a few underprivileged children (poor children from slums) outside a temple near our home. They were begging for food and
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Read moreChildren demonstrating the hand wash steps Each year Assam witnesses flood as monsoon sets in. Likewise, this year too Lakhimpur
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