
“Societies reward success but not many teach how to handle & overcome failure”. Hamari Kaksha is a voluntary registered society set up 5 years ago for the upliftment of less privileged children who are socially and economically weak and are living in slums & colonies. It is a class apart having first generation school going as well as non school going children who have either never gone to school or are on the brink of leaving school – the so called dropouts, repeaters, back benchers, branded as hopeless cases by society, school as well as parents.
Started with 17 children, on date there are 150 school going as well as out of school children ranging from beginners to high school classes who come for 3 hours in the evening to develop their cultural, artistic and organizational potential at Govt. Primary School, Sector 7 Chandigarh. It is a community programme run by working women teachers and student volunteers who want to extend beyond their institutes and homes.
Rohit joined Hamari Kaksha in Class VI after having repeated two years in the class . A boy from a very poor background, Rohit was quiet and obedient but lagging way behind in studies.
He was the bully. The most rude and the most cynical.Son of a washerman he would make his own rules and make fun of everything. He joined Hamari Kaksha in 2004 in Class VI.
Ishwar is studying in class III. He joined Hamari Kaksha last year with no reading and writing capability at all of Hindi or English. He was very ashamed of this fact but of this sense of shame.