He might have continued that way, outside the school system, but for the efforts of another student, D. Narmadha. The daughter of a daily wage earner, Ms. Narmadha went around collecting money and gave it to his mother, convincing her to send him back to school. He is not the only child that Ms. Narmadha, 17, a Class XII student of the Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School at Uthukottai, has helped. Not a rosy lifeHowever, life has not been rosy for Ms. Narmadha either. Ms. Narmadha led the other children in stopping child marriages and rescued child workers in her village.

Source: The Hindu February 26, 2021 21:32 UTC