Sahil can have a good future

Five year old Sahil* hails from Tubhe red light area, one of the innumerable poverty stricken red light pockets in Mumbai. His father, Manohar Khan, is a manual labourer and his mother, Haminnisha, is a housewife. He has two brothers as well. Both his parents are not educated. The family income is barely enough to make both ends meet.

Children residing 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.

Children like Sahil, residing in red light areas, face educational deprivation in terms of generational illiteracy, physical access to education and quality of education. Though Sahil hails from such a disadvantaged background he can dream of a stable future with a good education because he studies at the Turbhe study center, run by Sahaara. The foundational pre-primary teaching provided at Sahaara’s balwadis enables Sahil 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.

Sahil loves to attend the balwadi as apart from studies, there are several playtime activities to engage the children as well. Sahil is a live wire who is energetic and lively in class! He loves to play and thoroughly enjoys physical activities like running and hopping! He enjoys singing and dancing and performing action songs. He is very sociable and enjoys sharing his toys and things with other children.

Your generous donations, Frederic, Jayne, and Ron, will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Sahil.

Thank you so much for coming together to gift a year of education to Sahil!

*Name changed to protect identity