Noor was 8 months old when his mother took her life after his father walked away with another woman. His grandmother Shahnaz brought baby Noor into her tiny house that borders Mumbai’s largest landfill, and this slum community has been home to Noor ever since.
Shahnaz is nearing her fifties, but she’s worked as a housemaid for over a decade just to keep Noor and the rest of her family alive. Noor was 12 when Vision Rescue met him last year, and while he wasn’t begging on the streets like thousands of other orphaned children like him, because of Shahnaz, he could barely read or write as he’d never received a decent education.
Your generous donations toward children like Noor welcomed him into our Open Basic Education course that helps older kids catch up on their years of lost learning.
Noor hated coming to class at first. He’s gotten so used to spending his days hanging out with friends near the garbage dump that being within a classroom was a strange experience. His grandmother, his Vision Rescue case officer and teachers persisted with him for months until he gradually eased into life at our Beacon Learning Centre.
Today, Noor even hangs out at our classrooms during his lesson breaks! He’s aced his first and second term exams and will give his final exams later this month alongside our education partner NGO Pratham. With these results Noor will soon be able to rejoin formal education and complete school!
In the last year that we’ve known Noor, it’s been a joy watching him transform from a reluctant child in class to one who now loves helping his teachers and even heads over to our nursery when he’s free to help the teachers there!
Noor is also a gifted sportsman and he even won four medals at our recent Sports Day. He dreams of becoming a police officer when he grows up.
Thank You for investing in Noor’s life by gifting him quality education along with all his class resources, health checkups and a rich nutritional meal every weekday.
Your contributions in his life are far more than mere material things; you’ve gifted him the chance to make his dreams come true regardless of his rough circumstances.
