Families

Bablu

Bablu is an Ahirwar (Farming caste).  He has two girls and a boy:  Sakshi, 9, is in the third grade; Jyoti, 7, second grade; and Deepak, 4, kindergarten.  TIG provides scholarship support for all three children.

Bablu, his wife, Chanda, and the children are recent immigrants to Delhi from Khajuraho.  Bablu had to flee his home, Khajuraho, when he couldn't pay his gambling debts.  The gambling mafia there was giving him what are called, and not with any irony, "bamboo massages," beatings with bamboo sticks, and taking the little money he made as a tuk-tuk driver.  (A tuk-tuk is a 3-wheeled motorized vehicle used as a taxi.)  They also took his tuk-tuk, so he had no means to support himself.  Bablu’s family was one of TIG’s “first families.”  We met and gave educational support to the children in Khajuraho and promised to continue to help him in his new home.  We helped him to find a school in Delhi for the children:  Guru Angad Public School, a private school run by the Sikh religion.  It's proving to be an excellent school, but Bablu's daughters need academic support as their school in Khajuraho was not as demanding as is the Delhi school, so TIG is also funding a tutor for the girls.  When the stipend for the tutor is factored in, the annual cost of educating a student at the Delhi school runs about $400.  This includes tuition, uniforms, books, transportation, and, as already noted, tutoring.

Chahat

Chahat is a 3-year old TIG is sending to nursery school at Angad, the school Bablu's children attend.  Her father is a relative and neighbor of Bablu's.  On the 2013 trip to India, while visiting Bablu's family, one of the TIG members met Chahat and encouraged the group to give her a scholarship, which we did.  She seems to enjoy school and is adjusting to the new experience.

We are also working with her parents, as we have had the opportunity to do with other parents, helping them to understand how to support their child’s education.  Something as seemingly self-evident to those of us who have been to school as knowing that a child should attend school everyday, not just when she wants to, has to be explained to and reinforced with most of the parents with whom TIG works.

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