By Rahul Thomas | Coordinator - Donors
Sahaara believes that every person has a dream, and our work centers around ensuring that marginalized persons are able to articulate and work towards achieving their dream. Children living in Mumbai juvenile homes are one of the most marginalized children in Mumbai. Institutionalized, these children are most often from highly poverty stricken families.
As a part of the holistic intervention therein, Sahaara imparts computer education to the children between fourteen to eighteen years of age in the juvenile homes. Sahaara’s in-house computer course delivers a fitting foundation to the children preparing their skills for the technology-driven world outside the homes. The children attending the computer training get a start which will help them break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill their dreams of a stable future.
Sambhaji* completes his Computer Literacy Course!
Sambhaji, a student of Grade 7, is 13-year-old boy who staying in David Sassoon Industrial School (DSIS) since the last one year. He used to stay with his family at Ulhas Nagar before coming in DSIS. Sambhaji has two siblings. After his father died around 12 years ago, his mother couldn’t look after her children and due to financial constraints, she admitted Sambhaji is DSIS.
Initially Sambhaji did not like to stay in DSIS. But after some time, he got friends and adapted himself to the Home. One day he came to know that there is a Sahaara computer class in DSIS and he asked the Sahaara staff to teach him how to use a computer. When asked why he wanted to learn computers he said “ I saw some people working on the computer in the children’s court in the home at Ulhasnagar where I was before I came to DSIS and after that I desired to learn computers and work in a computer related field”. On seeing his eagerness to learn computers, the Sahaara staff enrolled Sambhaji into the computer literacy program in June 2013. He was regular to the computer class and his overall progress in learning the computer basics such as MS Word and Paint has been good. He has completed his course in December 2013.
Sambhaji desires to get a job, which is computer related as soon as he finishes his education and is discharged from the Home. He thanks Sahaara for helping him learn to use a computer.
*Name changed to protect identity.
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