Rohit Kumar Yadav, a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable who’s running a school for the poor in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh for the past two years, says he gets to live out his “father’s dream”.
“Years ago, my father had opened a school in Etawah district [Uttar Pradesh] to educate underprivileged children but had to shut it down due to family problems. However, now I am living my father’s dream of teaching economically backward children for free,” Rohit Kumar Yadav, a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable, tells The Better India.
He goes on to share his experience of teaching underprivileged children for free in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao for the past two years.
The railway children
What sparked this philanthropic venture was Rohit’s encounter with a street urchin. In June 2018, while travelling from Unnao to Rae Bareli section for work, he met a few children begging for money on the train. “A kid came to me asking…