Stories of Change

Some stories don’t begin with a big moment. They begin quietly, somewhere in a school corridor, between ordinary days, in the middle of a thought you weren’t expecting.

When Lukesh Kurre looks back on his journey from a small town in Chhattisgarh to becoming a Hindi teacher at a private school, he smiles with quiet pride. For him, teaching is not just a profession, it’s a calling that began in the corridors of his own childhood classroom.

A specially abled boy from the Badheda village of Udaipur was pushed by life’s circumstances to fight battles much larger than his age. Jitendra Kumar, just an 18-year-old boy, from Badheda village in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, was born in a modest family.

In the quiet hills of Uttarkashi, where opportunities often feel distant and dreams are weighed down by circumstances, a young woman dared to follow her heart. Her inner calling drove her to challenge the status quo and become a teacher in Uttarakhand.

Miles of Commitment: How Maya Jogpal Is Building Her Dream
Some journeys aren’t measured by the distance between two places, but by the determination it takes to walk them every day.
For Maya Jogpal, that journey is 160 kilometres long, every single day. From her home in Nagaur district to her college in Nokha, Bikanaer district, in Rajasthan, Maya travels this distance with one purpose; to become the kind of teacher who can truly make a difference

From the family’s craft table to the classroom’s chalkboard, one young woman’s quiet determination is shaping a different future.
In the small village of Tripura, where generations have kept alive the delicate rhythm of rural craftsmanship, Anamika Nama is learning to shape something else, futures.