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4. How much money She had when
She started her school in the slums?
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The post is about a young girl from the chawls of Mumbai who got an offer from Xavier’s by dint of her mentor’s unrelenting support and motivation.
“My family home was a room made of sheets of tin and plastic on the main road. Our slum used to ‘steal’ electricity from the BMC lines” reads the post by the young Bombay girl.
The account also offers a glimpse into the state of municipal schools in the country. The teachers in the municipal school she went to would treat the students “like servants. They used to make us wash their tiffins, come to class to just sleep and my Math teacher would smoke in class, in front of all of us” reads the post.
Her parents however didn’t want their child to suffer their fate. “They wanted us to study and make something of ourselves. So when I was 4 I joined Akanksha, an after school supplementary programme.”
She didn’t know then that her life is going to change forever. Her mentor at Akanksha who she lovingly called ‘Anjali didi’ felt studying at the municipal school was a waste of the kids’ potential and talents.
So in the ninth standard, ‘Anjali didi’ took it upon herself to provide for nine students’ education in a private school.
However, coping with the level of education of a private school proved to be difficult for her. “I didn’t know anything — I didn’t even know that different teachers teach different subjects — so I failed my ninth grade twice,” reads th
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