A new service in the basket, Umri Panchyat, Madhya Pradesh
Thirty-five-year-old Sabita Khalkho is a mother of five children — Sakshi, Shashi, Beronika, Sajna and Sushmita — who spends most of the year in the absence of her husband who works outside Ranchi district at a brick kiln. Though he only visits his wife and children once every three months, his presence isn’t very helpful either. The man drinks regularly and often large chunks of his monthly wages on liquor.
Sabita is a hardworking woman who works in the vegetable market every day to earn enough to feed her children three square meals a day. However, it’s not enough to send them to school.
A Soochna Sevak once happened to meet her and got talking. It was during this conversation that he learnt that her children were missing out on their right to education. When they asked Sabita why she wasn’t sending her kids to school, she said, “I am in the market from morning till night every day. If I skip work even for a day to get them admitted into a school that will mean I will have to let go of one day’s wage. And I cannot afford to do that.”
Having heard this, the Soochna Sevak offered his help and decided to take her children to St. Ignasius Balika Vidyalaya, a school located not very far from their home, and get them enrolled for free under the government’s education programme.
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