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Shawn and Parth from Ehsaas teaching Dhananjay, Deepak, Hemant, Vishal, and Sunil from the Patil Estate slum, near the Government College of Engineering campus, Pune.










My second day with the kids. I love the radiant smile on Dhananjay's face(in the first picture and fourth picture, in the Blue and White shirt). He works as a Mechanic everyday from 9 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.

Deepak (in the second picture, wearing spectacles), has given his 10th standard board exams, and wants to become an engineer.

In the third picture from the top, Parth from Ehsaas (in the White shirt with Orange sleeves) taught Sunil, Vishal, and Hemant (from left to right) the basics of English grammar. Sunil and Vishal work as office boys at a local agricultural college in Pune. Hemant (the brightest of the boys from Patil Estate) is unemployed. Sunil is the youngest of the kids from Patil estate (11 years old).

It was a fun class.

Parth took on the responsibility of teaching the fundamentals of english grammar to Hemant, Vishal and Sunil (in picture 3).

The kids were given varying levels of homework (from bringing 25 new english words to the next class, to completing english sentences in the Present, Past, and Future tense).

Dhananjay wanted a solo picture clicked, which explains the "bollywood
star type" picture. His hero is Salman Khan.

I also promised the boys a picture of the houses of Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan, when I go back to Bombay. (I wanted to explain to the kids that Salman Khan is basically this overgrown, brawny, numbfuckingtwitted 40 year old man, who emotionally is 9 and a half, but did not want to break the bubble. Some heroes must live on)

They promised to do their homework for next Saturday's class.