Renuka is chirpy and bubbly

Children in red light communities live in highly dangerous environments of violence, trauma and abuse. Many of these children are kept drugged under the very beds upon which the trade is carried out. Perishing in hunger, neglect, illiteracy and hopelessness, these children long for the day their childhood would be theirs again.

Renuka hails from Tubhe red light area, one of the innumerable poverty stricken red light pockets in Mumbai. Her father, Lakshman, works as a driver and her mother, Manisha, works as a house maid. Both her parents are not educated. The family is poor and struggles to make ends meet, and they find it very difficult to cope with medical emergencies.

Children like Renuka, face educational deprivation in terms of generational illiteracy, physical access to education and quality of education. Though Renuka hails from such a disadvantaged background she can dream of a stable future with a good education because she studies at the Turbhe study center, run by Sahaara. The foundational pre-primary teaching provided at Sahaara’s balwadis enables Renuka to step into a bright future through enrolment in a good school.

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.

Renuka is a bright child who is good in academics and is physically very active. She recites numbers from 1-10 and alphabets from A-L with bubbling enthusiasm. She loves to do the actions whenever nursery rhymes are taught and also enjoys playing with her toys.

Your generous donations, Dennis, Ruth, Christine, and Frederic, will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Renuka.

Thank you so much, Dennis, Ruth, Christine, and Frederic, for coming together to gift a year of education to Renuka!