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Javed Mujawar teaches at Gorvasti School — a small Zila Parishad school in Paritewadi village with 32 students and 2 teachers. Before SAKSHAM, the school was typical of its cluster: a blackboard, a few textbooks, and children who copied without comprehending.
Then the van began arriving. Every week. Word spread the way it does in small villages — fast and without any announcement. On van days, Mujawar Sir noticed that class attendance was 100%. Every time.
One afternoon, a seven-year-old girl stood at the school gate. She had seen the van from the road. She wanted to know what it was, and why the children inside were so different.
Mujawar Sir explained: India Exim Bank is supporting a programme called SAKSHAM. The van came every week. Every child got a tablet. They learned on it — Mathematics and English, through activities and exercises they could hear, see, and touch.
The next morning, the girl came back. With her father. “Papa,” she said, “I want to study in this school. Starting today.” Her father enrolled her that same day.
Today, every morning at Gorvasti, the Pratigya is recited in three languages — Marathi, Hindi, and English. Not because a teacher told the children to. Because they learned it.
Gayatri, Class 7, ZP School Akole.
For years, English class meant one thing: copy what the teacher wrote on the blackboard. She could spell every word correctly. But the moment a teacher asked her to speak — her eyes dropped, her throat closed, and the words she knew so well refused to come out.
Fear does that. Especially in classrooms where being wrong is the same as being embarrassed.
Then the SAKSHAM van arrived at her school. A tablet was placed in her hands — not to copy from, but to learn with. She tapped on a word. It spoke back to her. She recorded her own voice. She heard herself. She tried again. And again. No one was watching. No one was judging.
The fear did not leave all at once. But week by week, it had less room.
Three years later, in 2025, senior officials from India Exim Bank visited Akole School. The school chose Gayatri to represent them.
She stood up. She looked at the officials. And she said, “I am standing here because you helped me to unleash my potential.” — in English — without stopping, without looking down.
The girl who once couldn't find her voice had just used it in front of the people who gave her the chance to find it.
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