“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” These soulful words of Mother Teresa, the epitome of selfless service to humanity, resonate perfectly with an auto-rickshaw driver in Bathinda. In a rare selfless gesture of serving society while earning bread and butter for his family, Suresh Kumar has been visiting slum areas in different parts of the city to convince parents of deprived children to get them admitted to government schools. Kumar picks and drops slum children daily and he has been getting paid by SMILE foundation that provides education to underprivileged children.
It was 11 am on a Wednesday morning at a slum area adjacent to Gopal Nagar where auto-rickshaw driver Suresh Kumar, as usual, tried to convince Gomti Devi to get her three daughters admitted to a government school. Five minutes later, her husband barged in and entered into a verbal duel with Suresh while being adamant on not sending his daughters to school. Later, his neighbours pacified him. They sat on a cot in vehra (clusters of thatched houses with dingy rooms) and discussion regarding girls’ admission resumed. Half an hour later, the girls’ parents agreed to send them to school albeit on a condition that they would not have to to spend a single penny.
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