I first started getting involved with Parikrma more than 4 years ago. Back then, YEFI (Yahoo! Employee Foundation, India), used to donate to a slum school in Nandini Layout. One day the children from this school visited our office. I was shocked to discover that all the children of this class did not speak a common language. Made me wonder what their medium of instruction would be. I started thinking if we were really doing the right thing. We had yanked the kids out of their apprenticship (they came from a snake charmers community) and put them in a school, where their learning was rather suspect. So would they become at the end of this? What would we have done to them?
Enter Parikrma. On my visit to this school I was awestruck. They were talking of cloud seeding. They were bursting with confidence and enthusiasm. I saw that they had been enabled to dream, they had the confidence and were getting the skills to make their dreams come true.
However, our hearts were with the children at the Nandini Layout slum. So we requested Parikrma to set up one of their schools in Nandini Layout. Thats how the YEFI-Parikrma school was set up.
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