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ADITYA KUMAR CYCLYING AROUND INDIA TO GIVE CHILDREN EDUCATION

Every day, Aditya Kumar cycles around 40 miles with a heavy load of books and his few possessions on the back of his battered old bike to bring education to India's slum children. The science graduate has dedicated his life to teaching in the slums of Lucknow, a sprawling city in northern India that is home to some of the country's most deprived communities. He takes no money for his lessons, which he gives all over the city, parking his bike up wherever he is needed and staging an impromptu outdoor lesson. +2 Aditya Kumar (L) teaches functional English and mathematics, with the aim of getting the children to a standard where they can start going to a regular school ©Nishant Saxena (AFP/File) "These children do not know what a classroom looks like. Until I met them, they had no reason to visit a school," Kumar told AFP during one of his lessons, gesturing to a group of rapt-looking pupils. A Right to Education Act passed in 2009 gu...

ADITYA KUMAR DEDICATING HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO GIVE CHILDREN EDUCATION

MOBILE CYCLE SCHOOL TEACHER ADITYA KUMAR, A GLOBAL HERO I am Aditya Kumar{ born on july 18,1970 } a native of Lucknow, U.P.INDIA. I am honoured by LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS, 2014 for my Benevolent Service to free education. I have also been awarded NISHAN- E- IMAM HUSSAIN’ AWARD” by Honourable Sh.Ram Naik U.P. Governer.  I am nationally acclaimed social worker known as ` CYCLEGURUJI here because I pedal 60 to 65 km per day to nearby villages on bicycle providing free education to children of slum areas, who have not seen school. I gather children and teach basic Hindi, English, Mathematics . I take classes from 8 am to 7 pm daily. I take classes in number of slum areas nearby. I am not charging any fees, I am proud to say that my students are highly placed in Private and Government departments .   I realized the condition of the low-income families children, without education. This thought came into my mind and I started teaching poor children. I am giving edu...

GIVE EVERY CHILD EDUCATION

The heartbreaking picture that shines a light on education plight of millions of children by Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education #upforschool education funding Picture:  Facebook/Joyce Torrefranca A young boy from the Philippines - pictured at a makeshift desk doing his homework in the street, under the lights of a McDonald's restaurant - encapsulates the great paradox of global education today: more young people than ever before realise the importance of the right to education but too few adults are making that right into a reality. Most of us have a home and yet find it difficult to persuade our children to do homework.  Daniel Cabrera, just nine years old, lives and studies on the streets of Manila because his home was burned down shortly after his father died suddenly.  Left homeless, he now lives with his widowed mother and brother in the same street food stall where she works. Sleeping rough, he needs the brig...