Karunyapremi

How is Topslip doing? Well, to answer that question, I must say absolutely great! Despite a few challenges, this school year has been going very productively with 141 classes out of 164 scheduled, being taught by 5 teachers on the subjects of science, math and English, with a couple more scheduled to happen before the school breaks for summer!  There's more! After 12 years of relentless efforts by eVidyaloka coordinator Gayatri Ramesh, a fibre optic network broadband has been established, and now the classes will go on uninterrupted! I had the chance to interact with the bright minds of class 6 on January 28th. They were a lively bunch, and we had a great interaction!  They showed lots of love, cheer and had so much excitement talking about their favourite subjects. Here are some photos taken right from the classroom and my home  What next? With the school year coming to an end this April, I intend to ensure that the students of Topslip have support for the upcoming ...

  Top Slip. When I visited the school in Top Slip, it was a school that tribal students attended in a remote area on the Top Slip hill, which is said to be 800 ft high, in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve. I was told there would be a lot of elephants, and there were 3 tribal hamlets there. This was the school I had fundraised for, and the donors contributed to. There’s nothing wrong with this description, but something is missing in it. The real connection. All that changed the moment I actually went there. By the end of a single day, it became a place of joy and eagerness — a place with contentment but high aspiration, a thirst for knowledge, curiosity, great potential and a future. The students were kind, sweet and expressive once we interacted a little, and I have learnt a great deal from this visit. The parents of these students raise elephants and they can identify each one, they showed me two of them with their unique names like “Chinna Tambi”, and they told me about how they bathe...