Joshua loves playing football!

Four year old Joshua Sati hails from Gorai, one of the innumerable poverty stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. His father, Mohan Sati, works as a mechanic and his mother, Laxmi, is a housewife. Both his parents are illiterate.

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

Joshua is a smart student who enjoys writing exercises.  He is naughty by nature and thoroughly enjoys playing football and other physical activities like running and hopping!

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 Joshua, get a start which will help him break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill his dream of a stable future.

Your generous donations, Matthew, Sabari and Thomas (x2), will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Joshua.

Thank you so much, Matthew, Sabari and Thomas for coming together to gift dreams to Joshua!