By Rahul Thomas | Donors Co-ordinator
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.
Saleem found the reason for his life
Saleem* use to stay with his parents while he was studying 4th Gradein a urdu school at vikroli. When he was 12 years old, his father faced various difficulties in his business and decided to go back to his village with the family to Aurangabad. But Saleem was not interested to go along with them to the village, because of which he stayed back with his uncle and aunt. Since Saleem’s uncle and aunt use to sell blankets, he also got used to the business and began to learn making blanket. The curiosities of Saleem lead him to take up the call of selling blankets instead of going to school.
One fine day he went out to roam around the places in the town. Saleem got into a train from a nearby station and reached the central station. He had 200 Indian Rupees with to spend for the entire day. After he roamed around the places, he thought of going back to home. But when he reached the central station in the evening, he got confused about train he supposed to take. So he asked a lady passenger who was there at the station that which train he supposed to take home. The women found him suspicious and took him to a nearby police station. After which the police officials took him to the observation home. Saleem stayed in the observation home for 4-6 months and then he was shifted to David Sasson Industrial School by CWC court for rehabilitation till the age of 18. Now Saleem is 16 years young lad studying in 5th Grade.
Sahaara staff came in to contact with him and started to relate with him with love and care. He was admitted in the computer coaching classes. In the beginning of the classes he was very reserved and quiet. He was only interested in playing games in the computer by which he ignored to learn the other application which are taught in the classes. After a period of counselling, Saleem understood the importance of knowledge pertaining to the computer. Saleem didn’t stop his learning only with computers also he extended his opportunities by doing a course for tuner and fitter.He wanted to do job in Godrej Company as turner fitter through which he wish to help his family.
*Name changed to protect identity.
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