The perils of teaching on the roadside

While I was ambitious about my mini-project of educating the roadside children, I ignored the fact that the pollution and dust from vehicle fumes was increasing my cough and asthma. The kids' bright smiles and delight to learn their ABC's and the magic of numbers gave me energy to continue on. We taught at the roadside shed for 10 months everyday.

My doctor kept advising me to stop the roadside teaching. My kids advised the same too. God is great! One well-wisher, Col. Raghubir Singh offered a room in the basement of his house (close to my residence) for my class. So, we shifted our class to that room from the last week of December, 2016.

I purchased a projector so that my over-enthusiastic group of children would not need to pour over one laptop to see what I wanted to show them. It helped me immensely in teaching my fantastic young buddies.

My daughter (seen in the photos teaching) had come to Gurgaon with her family for a month for holidays with us. She helped me with a lot of teaching materials including phonic method of teaching English to beginners.

I would appreciate if you can leave some good wishes and prayers for the betterment of these bright but underprivileged children. If each one of us could do our part selflessly, what a wonderful world it would be! Keep reading for updates to this story...

My grandchildren also joined the class

My daughter teaching phonic letter sounds during her India trip