Looking out of a window one day in Champapurwa, a village near Shuklaganj, Unnao, Mrs. Ramrati saw a group of children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. When she approached their parents she could realize how poverty is eating up the structure of society. Moved from this, pity and yet heart breaking incident, came the determination that- “No one within one mile radius of our center should remain hungry and uneducated”.
It is her inspiration which helped us to create the “Saraswati Siksha Samiti” as it is today.
We took this initiative with the vision that “No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger.”
In 1995, we started our NGO in Unnao with a small school named ‘Durga Saraswati Shishu Mandir’. At that time there was no state run school in the area. Champapurwa, a slum with approximately 90% of the population below poverty line was a very tough place to start as there was a very little willpower among the people to send their children to school. But slowly and steady we took ‘Saraswati Siksha Samiti’ to new heights.
