Kaveri loves to read!

Four year old Kaveri Kakeri hails from Ambedkar Nagar, Colaba, one of the innumerable poverty stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. Her father, Prakash Kakeri, is a taxi driver and her mother, Soru, works as a maid. Kaveri has one brother as well. Both her parents are illiterate.

Children like Kaveri, from Mumbai slums, face educational deprivation in terms of generational illiteracy, physical access to education and quality of education as well. Though Kaveri hails from such a disadvantaged background, she can dream of a stable future with a good education because she studies at the Colaba study center, run by Sahaara. Being close to Kaveri’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.

Kaveri is a live wire who is energetic and lively in class!  She is smart and talkative. She loves reading exercises. She is 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 Kaveri, get a start which will help her break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill her dream of a stable future.

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

Thank you so much for your gift to Kaveri!