Delhi Community School provides free education to underprivileged students

Aug 11, 2021

New Delhi, Aug 11 (ANI): A Delhi-based community school HOPE helps underprivileged children not having access to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic to learn through mobile classrooms and provide free education to children along with free mid-day meals. "We started this concept seven years ago. We aim to reach kids in underserved communities," said Marlo Philip, Founder of NGO TejasAsia. Phillip further said, "Through the 'Hope Buses', we aim to go to places especially in an underserved community because we found out they don't have access to go to the schools. We want to take the schools to the students. That is been our dream. We have seen so many lives touched and impacted through this. We also give them a mid-day meal which is cooked in our Hope Kitchen in Tughlaqabad". Phillip started the concept of taking education onto the wheel seven years ago. The community school has got four buses at the moment which goes to eight locations in the capital to teach the students. The starting point of buses is Saket in Delhi. Then the buses go to different locations in Delhi. He has started a project in Gurugram as well. The children are made to study for two hours and then provided with food. Ebina, the manager at the bus explained the process by saying, "once we find a needy location where there are kids with no education, we do a survey and we find out how many kids are not going to school and what are the reasons behind it. If we find that there is a need, then we start a bus project in that locality". On the functioning of the school in the lockdown initiated due to COVID-19, the founder said, "The pandemic was very tough.