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  Meet 7 teachers in India who are making a change

From the time you learned how to scribble ABCs on a three-ruled notebook to the time you graduated out of college, it was always the teacher who guided you through every stage in life. The lessons you learn in life aren't necessarily delivered under the roof of a school. You may have been taught a few smart tricks about cricket or football from someone who wasn't even a professional teacher in a school or a college.

There are a few teachers in India who are not in the profession to earn. The literacy rate in India drops every time a student drops out of schools in villages due to lack of resources. These teachers have been constantly working to spread education among the less fortunate. They didn't need a room or desks to start a school, just a group of students were enough. Here are the encouraging tales of some of the most inspiring teachers in India.

Super 30 founder Anand Kumar: Anand Kumar was born in Patna and had a deep interest in Mathematics. A brilliant student in school, Anand Kumar's mathematical skills were such that he also secured admission in Cambridge University. But Cambridge was a faraway dream for this man who didn't have enough money or sponsors to make it to London. He may not have realised his dream but he didn't let poverty come in the way of spreading education. In 1992, he decided to rent a room and started the Ramanujan School of Mathematics. From two students in his first class in 1992 to coaching a group of 30 under-privileged students in 2002, Ramanujan School of Mathematics became 'Super 30' – a coaching institute that boasts of sending most of its students to IITs. This humble school has been featured on Discovery Channel, The New York Times, and even Time Magazine.

 

Savita Goyal: Savita Goyal, a teacher at the Government Primary Girls School in Umariya village, was abandoned by her parents at a very young age. The girl was four months old and it was later found out that she was blind. An organisation called Mahesh Drishtiheen Kalyan Sangh in Indore picked Savita and took care of her like thousands of other people. Savita now teaches students of class I and II in a school after reading lessons in Braille. Loved by her students and staff members, she is married to a member of the Mahesh Drishtiheen Kalyan Sangh, who also teaches in a government school in Khagone.

 

Rajesh Kumar Sharma under a metro station: Rajesh Kumar Sharma runs a general store in Shakarpur, Delhi. He takes a couple of hours off every day and sets off to meet his students under a Delhi metro bridge. The blackboard is painted on a wall and about 30 students from neighbouring villages gather around him to receive daily lessons. Some of the children are too young to attend the lessons but come to this 'open-school' anyway to learn something new. There's no attendance taken in this school and quite a few of these students qualified for government schools.

 

Jharkhand team coach: 18 tribal girls from Jharkhand travelled all the way to Spain to participate in a football tournament. The girls had no football gear and no shoes either, yet their love for football took them across the seven seas. This feat was achievable due to their American coach Franz Gastler, the founder and director of an organisation called Yuwa. He watched these girls play and learned that the girls were beaten when they asked for their birth certificates to apply for passports. Gastler's organisation helps survivors of human trafficking and child marriages to live the life they want to lead. Gastler, an amateur coach of this girls' team, now helps them fly to different countries to play the game they love so dearly.

 

Cancer survivor: Sunita Kadian was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She thought her world was about to end, but she didn't get bogged down by this disease. Her love for teaching made her learn the nuances of online teaching and e-learning. After teaching English and soft skills for four years, she believes it was this profession that helped her beat the negativity and regain confidence in herself. Cancer made her realise her goals more clearly and took up teaching for the love of it. A proud breast cancer survivor, he thanks her doctors and most importantly her students.

 

The teacher who makes superheroes: Nirali Vasisht wants to make her students superheroes and not just better humans. In addition to teaching them how to read and write, she wants to reshape the future of these children from schools with very limited resources.

 

16 year old headmaster: Babbar Ali: Famously known as the world's youngest headmaster, 16-year-old Babbar Ali is determined to provide education to every child in his village. A student of class 12, he attends school in the morning and comes home to 'Anand Shiksha Niketan' in the backyard of his house in West Bengal, where he teaches close to 800 students. His school has been recognised by the Bengal State Government, and allows students from here to migrate to other schools out of the village for higher education.

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