Every figure in our reporting is somebody's year. These are the students, families and communities our programmes have worked alongside, told as closely to their own account as we can.
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Lakshmi, 16
She had the marks and the scholarship. What she did not have was a way to get to school after the monsoon...
Read the storyKalaiselvi, 34
She did not need to be taught to stitch. She needed a second machine, and someone to introduce her to a...
Read the storyMurugan, 58
He was told at a camp that his blood pressure was dangerous. He put the slip in his shirt pocket and went back...
Read the storyClass XI, Government Higher Secondary School
No lecture, no poster campaign. One shared scoreboard and six weeks of logging turned out to be enough.
Read the storyThe Rajendran family
Four adults, no work for eleven weeks, and a relief list they were not on. How the gap was found and closed.
Read the storyPraveen, 19
The cheapest thing we did for him was also the one he says made the difference: one adult outside the family...
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