Click to play videoMumbai: Thirteen-year-old Kayyum, who is a daily wage worker in Mumbai, had no time to go to school, until the school came to his doorstep.
Kayyum now studies in a mobile school where classes are conducted on board a school bus. The bus can accommodate 20 to 25 children and it’s inside the bus that Kayyum and his classmates are taught languages, science and mathematics.
“It’s a lot of fun studying inside the bus. I like school because I want to grow up and do something big,” says Kayyum.
The mobile school is operated by an organisation called Doorstep who found that in a crowded city like Mumbai there was no peaceful , quiet place to teach children. And hence these buses sponsored by various corporate houses are fulfilling their purpose.
" We used to teach on streets. But it was too noisy and children couldn't concentrate. In a bus it gives a feel of a classroom,” says Founder and Director, Doorstep School, Beena Sheth Lashkari.
According to the NGO, the parents are also very supportive since the bus comes right to the homes of these children. There are two buses in Mumbai that park at four locations every day to bring education to the children's doorstep.
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