Creating role models
EarlySpark Mohammad Zaid Katheeb, Ramalingeshwar Nagar Children are joyful, fearless, and live every moment, freely expressing the rainbow of their emotions. Mohammad Zaid was different. A class I student at…
Learning with determination
Skill in Village Vijay Kumar, Hallikeri Vijay Kumar is from a small agricultural family. He studies in the eighth grade in Hallikeri. His father Mahesh, is a self-taught mechanic and…
Breaking barriers
SkillPlus & SkillPlus-R Shilpa Siddayyanavar, Yarebudihal, Dharwad Hailing from a family of four—parents, a younger brother and herself, Shilpa comes from very modest roots. Her father is a farmer, and…
Kindling the hidden spark
EarlySpark Swati Jeeragi, Mantur village If the covid pandemic was tough on adults, it was brutal on children. Cut off from their schools and prohibited from playing with their neighborhood…
Determined to bloom
Skill in Village Yellamma Ramanagoudra, Dharwad, Karnataka Yellamma Ramanagoudra is a cheerful grade 10 student studying in Government High School in Adargunchi village of Dharwad, Karnataka. Youngest in the family…
Looked for a chance, found a miracle
SkillPlus & SkillPlus-R Preeti HiremathYelimunnoli, Belagavi Preeti’s parents work as day laborers and she has an elder sister who is married. As someone who holds her family very dear, she…