STORIES OF CHANGE

Our alumni have done us very proud. Please read an article that appeared in People Magazine on two of our ex-students.

A recent workshop for our ex-students was very poignant. The chief guest was twenty-five-year-old Dashrath Rathod. "This is my Mobile Creches ID," he said with pride, clutching a small worn out card "and I owe Mobile Creches everything." Dashrath first encountered Mobile Creches at the age of six. His parents were daily wage labourers on a site in Navi Mumbai. They had a large family to support, so Dashrath was working in a tea shop 12 hours a day, earning Rs 5. He´d never been to school. "The teachers dragged me kicking and screaming to school," he said smiling, "and I can´t thank them enough." Once he was taught his basic letters and numbers, he was enrolled in the local municipal school. Although we provided some financial support, he also had to work at the tea shop after school. "It was really hard," he said, "but look where I am now. I am an advocate."

Apart from lawyers like Dashrath, our former students now include policemen, teachers, bank clerks, computer technicians and shipping assistants. And as our economy grows, new possibilities arise. When Dashrath asked students at the workshop what they´d like to be, 17-year-old Laxmi confessed that she was confused. "Should I go into animation or retail management?" she asked.