Gyan – the budding poet!

Twelve year old Gyan is a serious and mature student who is amicable with all. He is also a budding poet. Born to Shiv Kumari and Shri Ram Khilawan, Gyan is the fourth child among three sisters and two brothers.

His family hails from Hamirpur, about 80 km south of Kanpur, U.P. They migrated to Kanpur city where his father has been working in Naharkothi brick field as a laborer .The family goes back to their native place during monsoons, while his father and elder brother continue to work in Kanpur, working as a construction labourer. His father has studied up to class X. His brother and two sisters are also part of the Apna Skool network of schools are and are currently enrolled in a regular school. The whole family, while working together, can make about 3-4 thousand bricks in a day earning Rs.120 ($2.7) per thousand bricks.

Gyan was studying in class 4 in the village school. It was in Gera Apna Skool education centre where he learnt to read and write properly. He studied till class III there and is now studying in class VII in Ramkrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Kanpur. He resides at Apna Ghar, residential hostel for migrant children.

Thanks to your generous donations, Neil (x3), Anmol, Nate, Pavnee (x5), Adam and Keshav, Gyan’s school tuition for an entire year has been taken care of allowing him to attend school for an entire year.

Thank you, Anna, for your gift of a year of study materials for Gyan.

Thank you all, for coming together to support Gyan, thereby helping him continue his studies!