Wow!! Amazing little girl!!Bharti Kumari of Kusumbhara, Bihar, India is the headmistress of the village school at the age of twelve! Every day, she walks two miles to another village to attend school from 10AM to 3PM. Before and after her own classes, she teaches language and math to 50 village children between the ages of five and ten.
Her pupils are among the 10 million Indian children who are outside the state education system because their parents are so poor that they need them to work or no schools are nearby. Earlier this month the Indian government pledged £3.6 billion for a “right to education” scheme which aims to provide free schooling for all.
Kumari has decided she wants to be a teacher, even after she grows up.
Posted on Thursday, 22 April 2010
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Great read, inspires me
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Wow!! Amazing little girl!!
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Her pupils are among the 10 million Indian children who are outside the state education system because their parents are...
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The thing that impressed me most during my recent time in India was that despite grinding poverty there seems to be a...
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ARB any 12 year old headmistress that wants to teach other kids who cannot afford or reach a “real” school. Kudos to...
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Let’s hope the government’s admirable “right to education” plan contains a “right to not get blown apart by Maoist...
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