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Many kids in Baarali village in Udupi, India drop out of school due to the nearly 2-mile trek through forest to reach the school.
So, one of the school’s teachers bought a bus and now drives the kids to and from school to ensure they get a good education.
“There are no roads from the houses of the children to the school.
There is a mud path through the forest and most of the girl students began dropping out as their families were scared of allowing their children to walk for a total of 6 km to and from school,” said Rajaram, the science and math teacher at Baarali Government Higher Primary School.Saddened by the state of affairs, Rajaram reached out to Vijay Hegde, an alumnus of the school who runs a property management company in Bengaluru.
“Every week at least five to six students were not turning up. I called up one of our former students – Vijay Hegde and proposed the idea of buying a bus to pick up and drop the children,” Rajaram said.
About six months ago, Hegde, another alumna of the school and Rajaram…
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