Pratik loves to write!

Three year old, Pratik Babar hails from Mankhurd, from one of the innumerable poverty-stricken slum pockets in Mumbai. His father, Popat Babar, works as a salesman and his mother, Usha, is a housewife. He has one sister. Though his parents have not studied beyond the tenth grade, Pratik can dream of a stable future with a good education.

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

Pratik is a keen student who has always been eager to attend the study center. He is quiet by nature and his favourite activity is playing with his toys! He enjoys writing exercises and has a peaceful demeanor. To any first time visitor, Pratik’s cheerful nature belies his background and family’s utter poverty.

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 Pratik get a start which will help him break out of the poverty cycle.

Your generous donations, Steve and Ravi (x3) will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Pratik.

Thank you so much for gifting a dream to a vulnerable slum child like Pratik, thereby paving the way to a self-reliant and brighter future!