Vivek Kumar Dubey dedicated everything to educate the children living in slums and connect them to the mainstream. Vivek, who was studying MSc Maths in Allahabad University, started teaching the children of idol makers living in roadside slums in front of Chandrashekhar Azad Park. He left his studies to teach them. He later took this campaign started in 2015 to the slums built on the banks of Yamuna in Kidganj, Mutthiganj and then expanded it to Naini and Shankargarh. This work was not so easy, he had to face many difficulties to do it. Vivek got disappointed many times but did not lose hope. To do this work, he formed a Pahal Shiksha Samiti, so that no questions were raised, he handed over its command to the same girls living in slums, who got education up to MA degree on his initiative. Currently, a total of 52 centers are being run by the committee, where 1100 children of poor people are getting free education. Two computer labs have also been set up, where 100 children are being taught computers. These children are being taught by 52 Bal Shikshaks and 15 senior teachers. Recently three girls from their centre who received higher education also got jobs in a private company. One of these girls has also bought a scooty from her earnings.
Future technocrats are running a unique school
An educational initiative named ‘Anokhi Pehal’ was started for poor children in Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) in 2018, i.e. six years ago. Students pursuing B.Tech from the institute are teaching poor children living in the neighborhoods around the institute for free in the evenings on the campus. Children from nursery to 12th class are included in their class. The students of the institute give these children practical knowledge along with bookish knowledge and also keep evaluating their abilities continuously. This is the reason why the students studying here are performing well in the board exams as well. Currently 251 children are studying with Anokhi Pehal. Many students including Lakshya Pratap Singh, Abhishek Kashyap and Upasana Verma, who are pursuing B.Tech from the institute, are teaching these children.
Poor students are studying in this school for one rupee fee
Prayagraj. In Sangamnagari, education is being provided to the children of poor and deprived sections at a fee of one rupee per day in Shuruaat Play School opened behind Alopibag Ramlila Park. The attractive school equipped with computers, chairs, tables and library is no less than a boon for those children who earlier used to beg or pick garbage all day. Abhishek and his colleagues started teaching the children of poor and slums eight years ago. With the aim of connecting the small children living with their families in the slums and on the footpaths near Alopibag Chungi to the mainstream of education, they were taught at Tiranga Park and Tikonia Chauraha every day from four to six in the evening. On April 7, 2022, the play school started in a rented house behind Alopibag Ramlila Park. Currently, about fifty children from three to ten years are being taught in this play school.
Providing values along with education to poor children
Prayagraj. Members of the social organization Shri Sanskar Vatika Nyas are going among poor children and educating and inculcating values in them for free. A free education service project is being run in Naini since 2018. The organization’s president Abhinav Sharma said that this journey began with three children in Radha Krishna Park in Mumfordganj. The children taught by us are making their mark in the Indian Air Force, Railways and the medical field. Along with Abhinav Sharma, who has a Masters in English and Yoga from Allahabad University and B.Ed, Pankaj Verma, Chanchal, Riya, Suresh, Ramakant, Kajal and Neeraj are engaged in teaching. Three rooms have also been constructed with the help of villagers for the children to study.
