Muhilan loves to study as well as play!

Two and a half year old Muhilan Mariappan hails from Dharavi, one of the innumerable poverty-stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. His father, Mariappan, works as a salesman and his mother, Bela, is a housewife, he has one elder brother as well. The family is poor and struggles to make ends meet, and they find it very difficult to cope with medical emergencies.

Muhilan studies at the Dharavi study center run by Sahaara. He is a keen student who has always been eager to attend the study center. He is quiet but confident by nature. He knows to recite and write the alphabets well and also loves to play with his cars! To any first time visitor, Muhilan’s cheerful nature and skills in reciting rhymes and alphabets belies his background and family’s utter poverty.

Sahaara’s balwadi has a systematic curriculum wherein children are equipped in the following subjects  over the period of a year: English and Hindi: alphabets and poems, writing skills, general knowledge (colours, animals, flowers, personal hygiene etc), colouring, games and activities such as counting and recognition.

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

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

Thank you so much for gifting a dream to a vulnerable slum child like Muhilan!