We believe that in order to encourage and inspire underprivileged children towards a better life, it is important to create role models who teach them through examples – examples of other children who utilised the support and the intervention offered to them thus managing to break out of the cycle of illiteracy and poverty. Therefore in 2010, for the launch of the Anand Paul Education Support Programme, we organised a very special performance.

Children from Salaam Balak Trust were the celebrities at the launch of the Anand Paul Education Support Program. They put up a spectacular performance with their Guru, Astad Deboo, who delivered an inspiring talk to all the 500 children invited there from in and around Park Street. These invitee children were the ones we were hoping to mainstream into schools through the Anand Paul Education Support Programme. By showing them how other children from similar backgrounds had changed their lives, we believe we gave a positive impetus to them to join the education centres that were being created for them near their homes in the slums.