A resident of Vadodara for more than two decades Juin Dutta worked as a school coordinator.
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The place where she used to stay had a construction site where migrant workers and their family used to stay. The workers used to carry their children to the site and would be put to work. Some of them as old as 14 years. It was then where a germ of an idea originated and Juin started Pathshala classes which cater to the underprivileged children in Vadodara with a chain of mobile schools.
Juin quit her job and took this job as her full-time obsession. This initiative was started under the guidance of her organization Srotoshwini Trust where she began teaching the kids of migrant workers from 2013. She began her first classroom at the construction site where the kids spent the day. After the construction got over, many children left the place for other opportunities with their parents but some believed in her and requested her to take care of their children under her guidance. She started off with nine children and created a hostel for them who are still with her. They have become more like her children now.
The trust also runs Pathbhavan which is a slum library and has an activity centre for the underprivileged children. Besides books, they also carry out hobby and recreational classes and teaches spoken English and computer classes. The trust is working towards building a bigger hostel for children from such backgrounds and prepare them for bigger challenges in formal schools. Our salutations to this amazing person and what she done for the kids and their future.
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Pathshala A resident of Vadodara for more than two decades Juin Dutta worked as a school coordinator.
