Eight children from Kaliyuva Mane (Home for Learning), a free residential and non-residential school near Mysuru, are on cloud nine as they have successfully cleared the SSLC examination.
Four of them have secured the first class. Seven of the children belong to underprivileged families from rural areas of Mysuru.
“With this success, the children have cleared social, educational and emotional hurdles and inching closer to reach their goals,” said M.R. Ananth Kumar, Founder and Trustee, Kaliyuva Mane.
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A few of these students had no formal schooling at all, he added.
Divya Deepa Charitable Trust runs this school at Kenchalagudu village, about 15 km from Mysuru.
This is neither a Kannada medium school nor an English medium school in a conventional sense. This is a bilingual school and children from difficult backgrounds stay in the school as resident scholars.
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Admission is given round-the-year. The children are aged between six and 14.
The goal is to transform the lives of underprivileged children of the rural community. Children who fail to reach the desired educational standards due to illiteracy, ignorance and poverty of parents, children with turbulent childhoods, children battered by family with uncivilised background, first generation school-goers and school dropouts are prioritisd for admission at the school.
Most of the day scholars belong to nearby villages like Kenchalagudu, Salhundi, Dhanagahalli, Gujjegowdanapura, Arasinakere, Shivapura, Mahadevapura, Srirampura etc.
Seven of the children belong to underprivileged families from rural areas of Mysuru