Jayashree and Amit support alternative schooling and tribal rights

Old students come back to visit their school campus in Sakad village, Madhya Pradesh, and look for the tree they had planted as a child. They sit in the shade of the trees they had tied rakhis to, pledging to protect them. They point out traces of other projects they had been part of. At lunchtime, they join the queue of students to once again taste the meal that had nurtured them in their growing up years.

Every story worth telling is eventually a love story.

“The Adharshila Learning Centre is a collaboration in progress,” says Jayashree. It is evolving every day. This school is the result of sahbhagita, the collective participation of a community, students and teachers.”

Amit and Jayashree, who are known by their first names, met in the late 1980s in the Narmada valley, when both of them were looking for a meaningful way to work against injustice and oppression..................Read more

Source: livemint