Jainub Shaikh is a 9 year old girl from Reay Road. She is an intelligent, curious child who loves school. Her conditions though, are less than ideal as her mother is sick with tuberculosis and her alcoholic father works on a Hathgadi bringing home barely any earnings.
She is unable to be regular to school as she has 5 siblings who are very young and need her to care for them. As her mother is bedridden she has to handle all the house work as well.
Her dream is to become a teacher someday but her greatest fear is that she will be unable to attend school regularly due to her pathetic home situation and the poverty around her.
She says that when she does come on the Vision Rescue Bus, the meal she receives is often the only meal that she and the family have. Many a time they have no option but to drink water and sleep at night.
If her father has a good day at work he might bring home a little wheat flour or rice that they could cook, but these days are few and far between as he usually ends up coming home drunk only to abuse his wife.
