The unprecedented outbreak of Covid-19 has worsened every aspect of life and compelled everyone to live isolated for some time. During the continuous lockdown to break the chain of Coronavirus, everything came to a halt. Schools, Colleges, Shops, Offices, Transports & even the movements of people were seen at cessation. During this lockdown all the services were barred which had impacted the individuals in the society.

This lockdown has shown the new way to interact & meet with each other though not physically but virtually using mobiles, Laptops & Computers through Internet facility. Education was online, the office was online and almost everyone stepped to the virtual platform to explore their work.  For children, online classes & studies became a big challenge in the country but gradually managed to adapt to this new trend of learning & responding. This new education method anyhow helped in connecting children to studies but in the rural remote areas, the children from vulnerable families were unable to access their studies through digital ways. In the absence of gadgets and internet facilities, many children in rural India were trying to find alternate ways for studies which were almost very disappointing for them. Their families were helpless as they were not in the situation to manage the studies for their children.

As it is said that tough time don’t stay forever, and changes come with new horizons and hopes for everyone. Likewise, the children from village Gumna Baru, one of the target villages under Swaraksha, Anti-Human Trafficking Program in Mihinpurwa Block Baharaich was also experiencing tough times during the closure and unable to get connected with studies. Caritas India Swaraksha Program team members motivated the youth group girls to take a step this noble cause to teach these children. These girls understood how their small step can help the children to build the future of the children. These youth girls voluntarily took the initiative to teach these children. All necessary arrangement including identification of place and all the logistics for initiating this noble work was arranged by the partner staff.

Aarti and Anu were the youth Girls who volunteered the responsibility of teaching the children at this crucial time. The passion of these young girls is highly praiseworthy, where no one was there to teach these children, these girls step out with a positive mindset and started teaching these children at their places by following social distancing norms. Last four months, these young girls are continuously teaching 25 children in their village, which not only connected the children to the studies but also helped them in not getting involved in any wrong activities and further saved themfrom any kind of child labor.

This Act of helping children was not limited to that particular village but it has influenced & inspired other young girls who voluntarily came forwarded to teach those children who are not able to access any kind of education at this Pandemic time in their villages. Currently, more than a hundred Children are coming to 4 Education Centres and learning for their growth which seems to stop at the onset of Covid-19. At these 4 centres in 4 village Dhramapur, Salarpur, Murtiha & Ghumna Bharu four Young Girls are volunteering to teach the children. With the voluntary support of these young girls, the families of these children are very happy, and they feel the importance of education.

It can be said that these young girls had brought a ray of hope in the children & among their families. Though schools are closed now, the act of volunteerism shown by these girls is remarkable and it’s an exemplary work to create access to education for deprived children.