From grinding poverty to graduation

Hello  Everyone!

My name is Naresh Sir And I am Director of Education at People First. I would to thank once again for all your marvellous support. Well, I hope you all you enjoyed the festive season. 

I thought it time you heard from a girl helped by the programme, so I asked" Pramila" (see picture above but  name changed) to write a little about herself for this report. it was written in Hindi and translated but not a single word was changed apart from the name.Here is her open letter to you all..

Namaste! respected persons of great repute,

My name is Pramilla. 

I am about 13 years of age , but I do not know my birthday or birth year. My father is a farmer, we have a little land and I have 3 brothers and two sisters, but I am the first girl in my family to go to school above class 5. I am in class seven . I am so lucky , without the help from people first and the support they give it is very unlikely that I could be here in my classroom, writing to you.

I think it is only right that girls should have same chance as boys, do you know there are villages in Bihar where the local village council  do not want girls to dress in western dress or have a  mobile phone of their own. It is not like that here. We are being educated and therefore we would fight against such ridiculous notions from men. Education awakens us in more ways than literacy or counting and mathematics.

Your help for this programme does reach  to girls like me, without it I could not afford school uniform or books or any tuition this is provided to me free of any cost, so  thank you and please continue to reach out and take the hands of girls like me..

Your student,

Pramilla

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Hello Everyone! 

I hope you are well and that all your family are well too.

This report contains a students story, 

As you know our TOP scheme ( The Opportunity Programme)  is not limited to academic ability, but the selection process involves recommendation by teachers , an interview and is very competitive.  We asked Santosh Kumar one of our TOP students to write his story for this  report. Here it is..

"I was born in Bodhgaya, and my family were very poor but I was always interested in my studies, and attended the nearest people first school  from an early age. I had to work at my families market stall selling hats and belts to the tourists and when my father became ill , I had to work even harder.

It was really tough but I am so thankful for all the help and support I got from everyone at People First . I struggled hard, often working late into the night by the light of a lantern, but in-between the market stall and taking responsibility as the oldest son for my father's care, I managed to pass the school leaving examination and I applied for a People First scholarship under the TOP scheme to study full time in Delhi.

My father had improved in his health but there is no way we could afford any kind of further education without help. I got that help , and was able to graduate with a full Diploma in the Spanish language and now I work for an engineering  firm with contracts in South America. I may even be working for a while in Venezuela soon.

 Thank you for all my sponsors , Global Giving,  and everybody here at People First in India for everything you have done for me". 

Santosh Kumar

Please help us change young peoples lives for the better forever.

Naresh Sir ( Education Programme Director)

According to the rules we have changed Santosh's name for the purposes of this report but nothing else has been edited these are is his own words. 

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