Sania has a reason to smile!

Six year old Sania hails from Mankhurd, one of the innumerable poverty stricken slum pockets in Mumbai, India. Both her parents are illiterate. Her father, Kalimula, is a mechanic and her mother, Sairabanu, is a housewife. They are a family of seven that includes Sania, her two sisters, two brothers and parents.

Children from slums like Mankhurd face educational deprivation, such as generational illiteracy and a physical lack of access to a quality education. Though Sania hails from such a disadvantaged background, she can dream of a stable future because she studies at the Mankhurd Study Center run by the Sahaara Charitable Society. The foundational pre-primary teaching provided at Sahaara’s balwadis (Indian pre-schools) will enable Sania to step into a bright future through enrollment in a good school. Located near Sania’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 such as colors, animals, flowers and personal hygiene; and games and activities such as counting and recognition.

Sania loves to attend the balwadi apart from her studies so she can participate in the several playtime activities available to her there. She is an energetic girl and lively in class! She is talkative and thoroughly enjoys 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 Sania a firm educational base that will help her break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill her dream of a stable future.

Your generous donation will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Sania.

Thank you so much, Kowsilliya and Sumair, for your gift to Sania!