Category: Nehru Vikas Samiti

  • Education is a Child’s Best Friend

    Manisha, a Grade 8 student, wants to be a teacher. She has two brothers who go to the same school. Their family consists of five people who stay in a small brick room. I visited their home. “My husband is a labourer. Sometimes he has work and sometimes he doesn’t. He hardly earns Rs. 500…

  • How it all began at Nehru Vikas Manav Samiti

    “Education was only a rich man’s cup of tea during my childhood,” says Yogesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of Nehru Vikas Manav Samiti (NVMS). Being born and brought up in Kaman, Rajasthan, he closely witnessed the treatment of womenfolk and the restrictions placed on them as far as education was concerned. “Women were there just…