Key Points
A crippling poverty that forced her out of school and onto the grazing fields with someone elses livestock, a patriarchal society that would have married her off as a minor, and an alcoholic father that she lost when she was very young...
But two years later Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalya (KGBV), a residential school for girls from disadvantaged groups, in Pali village, about 40km from her home in Sakdara village, came in her life...
A field worker from an NGO called Educate Girls convinced her family to send her to the school where she could get a free education..
I visit their homes, I connect them with the NGOs working in the sector, we find options for them where finances are a constraint, she said.. School teachers in the villages also invite me to interact with the girls about importance of education and since they can relate with me as I am one among them..
I met so many girls there who told me that the field workers narrated my story to their parents and then they were convinced about sending them to school, she said.. (with inputs from PTI).
