“Wo roz 12 baje aata hai”, teacher said when I asked about the volunteer which Kishan (block coordinator) has mobilized. As soon as I finished saying, "he is not here today, as it is already 2 minutes past 12" and turned back, I saw a young boy standing behind me. “Ravi” he replied when I asked his name and added he will start his class now.
After a brief discussion of 10 minutes with school teacher, we entered in classroom. There were around 20 children in the classroom. He started first activity after all the children were comfortably sitting in circular formation. With utmost sincerity, he started calling children one-by-one at the center of circle and then each child searched for the card of a particular letter. And children just loved this activity which is clear from their very cheerful and bright faces.
When I asked about his education qualification, he told me that he was not able to complete 10th due to intense fever during the examinations. I thought, “Do teachers have any problem about a student like Ravi coming and doing joyful learning activities with children?” But even before asking teacher said while entering in the room, “Ravi bahut ache se activities karwata hai aur ye akshar cards to bahut hi ache hain, 1-2nd ke bachhon ke liye to aise hi cards chayeye”. We stayed there for 10 more minutes.
‘Let’s go and visit Ravi’s home and meet his parents’, I think everyone had the same feeling that time because we just started walking towards village. “dekhiye, Pratham ka sticker” Sunil, district coordinator, said with lot of excitement.
It was pasted on the wall of Ravi’s home. We met his father and he asked, “Ravi school mein kaisa padha raha hai, teacher us se kush hai na?” and we all said, “of course, bahut achha padha raha hai”. He told us that Ravi was very sick during examinations because of pressure of 10th exams. But now after starting this class, he is again thinking of his education.
We also met father of another volunteer who was not able to go school due to illness. His father was feeling sorry for that and promised that as soon as he will recover, will join Ravi.
While moving to another village I was thinking, “aur log kahte hain ki aaj kal koi bina paise ke kaam nahi karta”
Village Name: Bawdi
Block : Phagi
District: Jaipur
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