Preeti loves sharing her toys!

Five year old Preeti Makwana hails from Reay Road, one of the innumerable poverty stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. Her father, Vinod Makwana, is a helper at the taxi stand and her mother, Anita, works as a maid. Both her parents are illiterate. The family income is barely enough to make both ends meet.

Children like Preeti, from Mumbai slums, face educational deprivation in terms of generational illiteracy, physical access to education and quality of education as well. Though Preeti hails from such a disadvantaged background she can dream of a stable future with a good education because she studies at the Reay Road study center, run by Sahaara. Being close to Preeti’s house, the balwadi is a potent vehicle for transforming her future through quality education.

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.

Preeti is a live wire who is energetic and lively in class! She loves to play and thoroughly enjoys physical activities like running and hopping! She loves to twirl and enjoys going for walks. She is very sociable and enjoys sharing her toys and things with other children.

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 Preeti, get a start which will help her break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill her dream of a stable future.

Your generous donation, Joshua, Ajay and Lesley (x2) will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Preeti.

Thank you so much for your gift to Preeti!