10 success stories of school leadership innovation in slum /low income school, who brought some change in lives of those students by providing them free education.

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3. What is struggle in life and success
life is full of twist and turns. Everyone has to struggle here in this
world to overcome every obstacle in the way to success. For this hard
work is necessary.withhout working hard and just by sitting idle it will
be hard for one to get success.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even
as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the
hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street
sweeper who did his job well.” ------- Martin Luther Jr

5. Objective of report
To draw inspiration from people who made impossible to
possible.
Who have met the height of success in their life by bringing
some innovation in the field of education.

6. RAJESH KUMAR - FREE SCHOOL UNDER BRIDGE IN INDIA
• It is unusual school in unusual location and is run by unusual
teacher.
• Rajesh Kumar a shopkeeper by profession spend hours every
morning teaching around eighty students ,in his open air class
room between pillars and beneath the track of Delhi Metro from
Yamuna bank station .
• There are no chairs or tables and the children sit on roll of
polystyrene foam placed on the rubble. Three rectangle patches
are painted black and used as blackboard.
• Anonymous donor have contributed cardigans,books,shoes,and
stationery for the children

7. • Rajesh Kumar visited the construction of Delhi transit station, there
he saw children playing at the site instead of going to school.
• “When he questioned the parents working at the site they all said
there were no school in vicinity and no one cared”
• This made him to start a school and provide a basic education to
these slum children in order to bring a ray of hopes and help them
in shaping their dreams.

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10. BABAR ALI – youngest headmaster of the world

11. BABAR ALI - world’s youngest HM making remarkable change in India
• The story of young man from Murshidabd in west Bengal is a
remarkable tale of a desire to learn amid the direst poverty. He is
only16 a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students
in his family's backyard, where he runs the classes for poor children
in the village.
• Babar wakes at 7 in the morning, does some house hold work, then
hires a auto and later walk 5 km to reach his school “Cossimbazar
Raj Govinda Sundari Vidyapeeth”where he is class9th student.
• Soon after his school he make his way to an afternoon school where
he is a HM of 800 students. He started a school at age of nine
Anand siksha Niketan.
• It is a dilapidated concrete structure covered in half tone posters.

12. • Where the rows of under privileged kids sit under the open blue sky
and learn what most children in modern world pay hundreds of
dollars for free. Coming from a privileged family Babar realized
that he must do something for the other children in the village.
• In 2002 his school got institutionalized, started mid day meal
scheme. Today the school has got 60 regular attendees and over 220
students on roll call and 800 students in total, with 10 volunteer
teachers teaching grade1 through 8.
• Babar has not only helped out hundreds of children to get
enlightened but has also inspired millions of youth like us. This tale
is a testament to the difference that one person can make his/her
world.
• His story also bears evidence to the fact that “if you have a will then
there is a way…..”

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14. MAGARET ATIENO OCHIENG –inspiring teacher
• Kibera the slum of Nairobi Kenney's largest slum inspire the story of
a teacher Margaret who makes an effort for upliftment of education
for the slum children.
• Her daily schedule starts at 4 in the morning, catch the bus and travel
for 2 hr. to reach her school.
• She is the one who motivate students to learn and provide the basic
education in order to read and write despite of being shortage of
teachers.
• She says “There is no training for how to teach in slum schools!
they’re given training to teach anywhere where there are children —
not even in a school! Even if there is no school but there are children,

15. • Despite of all difficulties and constraints she continues to do her
job for the betterment of slum students.
• This is great achievement by Margaret or the Nobel cause taken
up by her in poverty stricken country like Africa. she is a true
inspiration for many such future success project in this field.

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18. BHIKUBHAI VYAS – this man made a promise to never leave
his village
• A man who is 84 age now has decided in his younger age not to
migrate from this village but to bring a wave of change and set his
village as a example. He has been working tirelessly towards
upliftment of his village through education,livelyhoods,awareness and
more.
• Born in a small town – Valod, near Surat, he has been actively
involved in education, community development and various
environmental initiatives .
• He and his friend joined primary and secondary schools to help tribal
community which was not approved by traditional leaders. Later they
joined the Gandhian ashram as a teacher and got a chance to
exclusively work for the trial community. It was a turning point of his
life.

19. • After leaving ashram, vyas continued to serve in remote tribal
village in valod taluk and started a high school there. Around 28
years back vyas and his wife visited a neighboring taluka,Dharmpur
which come under valsad district and found that most of the people
suffer from abject poverty and illiterate which is a tribal belt consist
of 231 village.
• He founded a Vedchhi Pradesh Seva Samiti (VPSS) which helped
in improving education standard of that village.
• Later he found that the school were very few and not practically
functioning, with help of Tuff(a Swedish peace organisation)he
started 50 night classes for adults and 50 balwadis in as many
villages, to build up a closer rapport with the community, also
started 20 Non-Formal Education [NFE] classes to tap youngsters.

20. • Through VPSS a special emphasis was given to girl’s education and
started a girl’s hostel for 11and 12th classes near Bilpudi and
donated a acre of land for tribal family.
• Apart from education development he also looked after holistic
development of villages through VPSS he distributed 1,11,800
mango saplings, organized mass marriages covering 40 villages,
wells were dug by community as shramdaan constructed 5 large
rain water harvesting tanks and many more for upliftment of
villages .
• Today, VPSS runs 6 primary schools, 2 high schools, 1 hostel for
girls for higher secondary education and a scholarship scheme for
university education, serving over 1000 students in total.
• Vyas believes that education should not be measured simply in
monetary terms; as in the long term, it is going to generate new
awareness and create quality leadership.

22. VIJAY KUMAR CHAUHAN -How A Library In A Village In Bihar
Is Changing The Lives Of The Students
• Kumar Chauhan is a Bihari youth, born to a landless daily-wage-
worker family. He migrated to Ludhiana at the young age of 15 for
a job. The petty salary he received was not enough to support even
his basic necessities. Hence, he decided to come back and continue
his studies. He knew the power of education and also encouraged
other students by giving them free lessons.
• He met Surya Prakash Rai a person with motive to improve
educational scenario in Bihar. Which led to origin of PRAYOG by
Surya Prakash Rai.
• PRAYOG library was set up in a community open space, first day
they saw mere 5 students walking but within year’s time the library
was hit and saw a regular students entering. .

23. • Another initiative taken by PRAYOG is to grab people’s attention
that is by exposure visit where 5 students were selected to be a part
of the visit. First visit was to Parivartan NGO and the second visit
was in Bhutan ,it act as a confidence booster as many students
started getting connected with them.
• PRAYOG Team prepare kids for debate and make them socially
aware.
• Most of families were worried that their children from high
community restricted children from backward class, thus Surya
Prakash Rai took initiative of clearing illusion that persisted among
them.. “Today, the same kids from all the communities stay
together in the same room during exposure visits, hug each other,
and share their food. It is a great achievement,”

24. • Apart from lack of awareness, a low teacher-student ratio was
another challenge. “Kids were more willing to attend tuition
classes than school”. This problem was solved through an
interesting initiative which involved older students mentoring the
younger ones.
• Education is a powerful tool that can gain victory against all odds,
poverty, superstitious, unhygienic lifestyle and other social issues.
• Thus PRAYOG has enlightened the younger lives by showing
them the way to success.

26. OSCAR CORTES – volunteer at schools in the slums
• It was our first time volunteering and we planned to spend 3 weeks
with the project, we had no idea that we would get so emotionally
involved says Oscar Cortes.
• Fundación Mariposas Amarillas (FMA) is a small grassroots
organisation based in Santa Marta, on the Caribbean coast of
Colombia, founded by Oscar Cortes – himself a former street kid.
• The foundation runs two small schools in very poor
neighbourhoods/slums on the outskirts of Santa Marta. There is a
morning school and an afternoon school that is run by Oscar and a
team of short and long term volunteers from all over the world.
• The FMA afternoon school is supposed to be a two hour after school
program.

27. • However in this slum there is very little support, funds or incentive
to send their kids to schools outside and so for most of the kids
here the 2 hour afternoon school is their only access to education.
• Some days (especially when it rains) there may be 10 or so kids,
other days (especially art and sport days) there can be over 30 kids.
The classrooms get split by age and ability and volunteers divide
up accordingly.
• The morning school is in another neighbourhood and is more
structured, the same kids come every day and their parents are a
little more proactive about their education.
• There are two classes in the morning school, one for the younger
kids and one for the older kids. The teachers create the lesson plans
and teach all the fundamentals like maths, Spanish, English .

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29. MUKESH KUMAR LATHIYA – who keeps his students updated
with the latest news around the world.
• Teaching is not just a profession but opportunity to build the future of
hundreds of young mind .
• He is a government school teacher from Dhamil village in Gujarat,
creating learning spaces in the classroom and enhancing the learning
environment to students to access the latest news and events from
across the globe by creating a child friendly classroom.
• He downloads the e- paper from the internet, takes print out and post
it on the display board for the students which helps them to know
what is happening across the globe and helps in the overall
development.
• Lathiya has created an open library in the school where students can
go anytime and read books of their choice and has also set up a
library corner in the classroom to make more accessible to students

30. • Another interesting thing which he has done is to attach a name
plate with the name of students to each desk with a pen stand
,where the classroom become more organized and students feel
motivated to attend school when they see their name on the seats.
• He’s various initiative is helping 150 students gain a holistic
learning experience. This boost their confidence and they no
longer hesitate in discussing and talking about the things
• Bad internet connection, lack of financial support and other
similar challenges did not stop him from doing what he want to do
for the kids. He used his personal saving to print out the
newspaper, got internet connection and maintain the notice
board.

31. • The efforts of Lathiya to improve the education system in one small
school is a ray of hope and if other teachers followed the same path,
the gap between education in public and private schools, as well as
urban and rural settings, will be bridged.
• Students are eager to learn and explore. They should be provided
with opportunities equal to mainstream schools says Mukesh Lathiya

33. N NAGARANI AND L V SHYAM SHANKAR -
real heroes
• These two teachers the real heroes of Government Primary
Marasandahalli,Hoskote taluk spend 14 year in this school,travell 42
km to reach this school. This duo manages 34 children from Classes
1 to 5 in the school.
• When every parent in Bangalore scrambles for a seat in a private
school, the scene in this village on the outskirts is different. Here,
parents are pulling out children from private schools and getting
them enrolled in a government school.
• The community plays an active role in the functioning of the
school, with many parents visiting the school on a day-to-day basis.
"They even alert the school if a child is found loitering on the fields
without attending classes .

34. • These teachers feel school as apart of their of their live, journey
and consider the students to be their children.
• They have no complaints of workload, election duty or census
work. They have proper planning and put children in charge of
classes inculcating in them team work and leadership skills.
• They want to inculcate the young minds by showing a ray of hope
in achieving their dreams by the way of education.

36. MEHER NAZUM - youth leader opens the school for children in
slum
• Meher Nazmun, known popularly as Tisha to her friends and
family, lives in Munshipara, Rangpur District in Bangladesh. As she
walked to and from her college, she was troubled at seeing children
from the nearby slums on the streets and not enrolled in school.
• In 2010, she was trained as a youth leader by The Hunger Project
(THP)-Bangladesh’s “Youth Ending Hunger” Program. she then
organized a “youth unit” in her area. With the help of her youth
unit, initiated a new community intervention to improve school
enrolment and started teaching the children from the slums in an
open-air school that she called “School Under the Sky”

37. •During monsoon the monsoon the major challenge was absence
of roof which let to many children drop out .however with the
initiative taken by a school principal who provided her a roofed
space in the school, she could conduct classes without children
being absent even in the rains.
•She is one of the young achiever whose tale of success can bring
inspiration for today’s young generation.

39. BINA LAKSHARIA – “Door step school”
• “It is school on wheels , transforming buses into classroom in
Mumbai by educating many slum children.
• Bina Laksharia, a teacher, started this Door Step School in 1997
where a school-bus is converted into a travelling classroom across
Mumbai slums.
• Today, Door Step school has 5 buses in Mumbai and Pune and
hold 3-hour long classes everyday. With 10 teachers on their
payroll.

40. • "Initially it was very difficult for her. When she launched this bus
there were lot of phone calls and every one wanted to give bus.
But running expenses are more important. So she faced tough time
in convincing the donor that they want running expenses.“
• Besides parting education, she provides food to the children on
special occasions.
• Bina has ignited the minds of little ones by educating them how to
read and write by making their dreams come true.

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42. Education is important and valuable because without learning the
world would function more poorly. Apart from achieving success
by providing education to the needy children is almost like finding
God, the destination is the same ,but the roads are as varied as the
seekers. All is needed to choose the right path.
Nothing is impossible the word itself
says “I’M POSSIBLE”