School Bheje Hum Abhiyaan
A better future for children! Not every child is privileged enough to get his basic right to education. Parents and caregivers of children living in lower socioeconomic conditions are often unable to ensure that their children go to school. The children then miss out on the very stepping stone towards a better and more resilient future. A need in Patna, India. Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India is a home to several thousands of such children. Rapid urbanization and influx of the poorest landless rural population is leading to proliferation of urban slums. Samir and his band of young friends have witnessed such children being sucked into the vortex of several vagaries of life; continuing poverty, malnutrition, addiction to alcohol and narcotics, early marriages of girls (often during teen ages), abuse and a general deprivation of childhood. An opportunity for children to go school and get quality education is the primary panacea to many social misfortunes. ...