Prakash Rao sells tea at a small stall in Cuttack, Odisha like the hundreds of others who need to earn a livelihood. But he stands out from the crowd.
For the last 14 years, he has been donating half of his income towards the running of a school in a slum which he founded.
“14 years back I started a school in between the slum for the students those who are not going to school, whose parents are not interested that their children should be educated. So I thought that when they are not going to school I should bring a school to them,” said Prakash Rao in the short film made by TheIncendiaryFilms.
Rao said he had to leave his education mid-way to make ends meet at home and it didn’t help that he had a father who never saw education as an investment.
With the hope that so children may not be as unfortunate as he was, Rao provides them with basic level education (Preparatory to Standard III). After that he does his part to enroll them in government schools.
He also provides the children with free milk and biscuits from his stall.
Watch his complete story over here :
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