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The roadside school
Rajesh Kumar Sharma was forced to abandon his education due to financial difficulties. Today, he has assumed the role of a teacher for 39 impoverished children, who currently attend his school in Delhi.
A school that Rajesh runs from underneath a DMRC bridge, Five days a week, he takes out two hours to teach when his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. His three children go to regular schools in Mayur Vihar. Compelled to quit college in the third year of his BSc due to financial constraints, Sharma did not want anyone to meet the same fate. Parents wanted their children to work instead of going to school as they would add to the family income. He argued with the parents and persuaded many of them.
Sharma starts at the basics and goes on to prepare the children for admission to government schools. So far, Sharma has taught about a 140 students and nearly half of them have been able to move on to government schools.
You can read more about this great man here
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/a-roadside-school/1029844/
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