When your children starts their own 'Anandghar'....

Pratiksha, currently studies in 7th grade. She is the 1st batch of students of Anandghar to whom we enrolled in school in 2016. Pratiksha used to work as a waste picker along with her mother and younger brother getting enrolled in schools. She is still a regular student of Anandghar.
Anandghar runs from Monday to Friday; so she along with her friends decided to run their own Anandghar for the children from the community on every Saturday.
They started the campaign from Thursday last week. Asked each and every student of Anandghar whether they would like to join 'their' Anandghar on Saturday. Noted down names of the interested children and then on Saturday they inaugurated their Anandghar with 25+ children in the narrow lanes outside her home.
You can see Pratiksha Didi, Shalu Didi, Roshani Didi and Bhuri Didi teaching kids in this picture shared with me by Pratiksha after hugely successful 1st day.

PS. They also distributed Bananas as nutritional food just like Anandghar

Aditi tai was reading a story to Dadu and he just slept in her arms.

Dadu's day starts at 5 in the morning when he goes to the dumping ground. He usually comes back at 02:00 / 03:00 pm. After eating something he couldn't wait any longer to come to Anandghar. For a 8 year boy like him, it is an very exhausting job. Most of the times he is very exhausted by the time he comes to Anandghar. But he never skips the center.

Even if he decides to stay home, he does not have the luxury to take an afternoon nap.

On that day, Dadu came late to the center, he picked up a book and ask Aditi Tai to read him a story. She was reading a story to him when he just slept on her shoulders and Aditi just sat in that position for next about 20 minutes as she did not wanted to disturb him.

He is not the only one who sleeps at Anandghar. There are few other children also and they do it because they feel safe.

Incidences like this let us know that whatever we are doing is really worth doing....