Before I started coming to class I could not have looked you in the face and spoken to you," says Sajida, 18, "I didn't have the confidence to speak to a stranger but now I can."
Sajida says she has loftier accomplishments in the making -- she has started picking up signs on the buses crossing her village.
She can also slowly read a letter and the name of the cough medicine in her home.
This center is funded by non resident Indians in the United Kingdom, this particular class runs for one-and-half hours every day, Monday to Saturday, in three separate batches. The girls are told that it is important to attend class every day, if not, they would be left behind. So they come, often assembling outside the centre before class begins and staying on long after the last batch finishes.
Image: Students with their teacher outside the class. Below: Residents of Mewat village.
Also read: A day in the life of a village school in Bihar
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