No one, as far as we know, has any other statistics, except what we gather from the children and now from members of the women's cooperative. Out of this 217 approximately 150 students, have started doing self coaching and are showing good results in their school also. There is a mixture of Hindu and Muslim families, some people who have migrated from Bangladesh also live here. The men work in various unskilled labour. Many times, their daughters are not sent to school because they have to augment the family income, helping the mother at her house work or at her outside place of work.
Boys normally have a certain amount of money they have to bring into the family.
Most girls and boys do not find education relevant. They are so busy looking at fending away daily hunger that they do not and cannot think about their futures. When you work with a neglected forgotten community like an urban slum, nothing stays small. Many of their children had not attended any type of educational institution. KathaShala already has about 400 children in the Community Library we started last year with a three-month NBT support, PLUS about 1000 children in the various programmes there which includes.