Samreen loves hearing stories unfold

Five year old Samreen hails from Govandi, one of the innumerable poverty stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. Her father, Tariq Shaikh, works as a zari worker and her mother, Kahakasharubi Shaikh, is a housewife, Samreen has five siblings as well. Though her father is illiterate and mother has not studied beyond the fifth grade, Samreen can dream of a stable future with a good education.

Samreen studies at the Govandi study center, run by Sahaara. She  has always been eager to attend the study center and prefers it to staying at home. She particularly enjoys hearing stories and pays rapt attention to the characters being unfolded in the story! She is very active during playtime and is a keen student as well. To any first time visitor, Samreen’s confident and intelligent talkativeness would belie her background and family’s 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 Samreen get a start which will help her break out of the poverty cycle.

Your generous donations,  will enable Sahaara to provide a of pre-primary education to Samreen.

Thank you so much for gifting a dream to a vulnerable child like Samreen, thereby paving the way to a self-reliant and brighter future!