Stories of Hope ⁽⁷⁾

Sept 8th: Kickoff "Giving Circle" Sufali, recognized for excellence After almost a decade in the U.S., I moved back to Likhmewala - my village where I grew up. The village sits rather quietly on the India Pakistan border in Northern Rajasthan. It has one Government school. This is the school where I had learnt my first alphabets. The school has changed significantly over the last three decades, with many newly constructed classrooms! The school now teaches from 1st to 12th grade. It has an equal number of female and male students. As I envisioned three initiatives (NEEV, MARG, Giving Circle),…

Mentor - Aditi Student - Sufali Sufali cleared her 10th board exams, with highest marks in her school in her village. Most of her scores read in 90s, with Math being a 100 on 100. Her father who studied in the same village school till 8th and her mother, who studied in a nearby village till 5th, understood that this mark-sheet was not usual. Sufali had always talked about wanting to become a doctor, and they finally stopped to wonder if that could be a 'realistic' dream. Two years later, with Covid Pandemic impacting all aspects of life, Sufali did…