Gifting a dream to Padma through Education!

Four year old Padma hails from Dharavi, arguably the largest and most populated slum pocket in Asia. Padma’s parents, Rajesh and Malathi are unemployed and the family lives with Padma’s grandparents. She is the only child.  Though her family is very poor and her parents have not studied beyond the eighth grade, Padma can dream of a stable future with a good education.

Padma studies at the Dharavi study center run by Sahaara. She is a keen and enthusiastic student who has always been eager to attend the study center. She particularly enjoys dressing up for the class and insists that she personally picks out her clothes for the day! At the same time, Padma is obedient and polite by nature and respects elders in her speech and conduct. At the center, her nonstop laughter, innocent eyes and the confidence with which she recites English rhymes and alphabets would belie her background and family’s utter poverty.

Sahaara Charitable Society believes that every person has a dream, and their work centers around ensuring that marginalized persons are able to articulate and work towards achieving their dream. Sahaara’s early childhood education program gives children like Padma get a start which will help her break out of the poverty cycle.

Your generous donation, Scott, will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Padma.

Thank you, Scott, for gifting dreams of a self-reliant and beautiful future to a vulnerable child like Padma!