Wahid loves to read!

Three year old Wahid Hussein hails from Reay Road, one of the innumerable poverty stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. Her father, Hussein, is a taxi driver and her mother, Shabnam, is a housewife. Both her parents are illiterate.

Children like Wahid, from Mumbai slums, face educational deprivation in terms of generational illiteracy, physical access to education and quality of education as well. Though Wahid 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 Wahid’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.

Wahid is a smart student but she is very naughty as well. She loves to attend the balwadi as apart from studies, there are several playtime activities to engage the children as well. Wahid loves reading aloud! She loves to laugh and 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 Wahid, get a start which will help her break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill her dream of a stable future.

Your generous donations, Rajeev, James, Jeffrey, and Katherine, will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Wahid.

Thank you so much, Rajeev, James, Jeffrey, and Katherine, for coming together to gift education to Wahid!