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Rahul Patil, 10, goes to Holy
Name High School and is in class 5.
He has been with Akanksha for 5 years
now. He has been a part of the Dance
as well as the Art class.
Rahul comes from the Cuffe Parade
community. He lives with his grandmother,
parents and younger brother and sisters.
Both his other siblings also attend
Akanksha centers. His mother is a
housewife, and his father is a fisherman.
Dimple Didi says that Rahul is a
very bright student. He goes to an
English medium school and sometimes
because of that he gets too confident.
However he is an academically oriented
student and does his work well. He
is very helpful to his peers and is
always ready to take on responsibility.
He enjoys studying. He has been chosen
for the Learning to Lead program
One of the interesting things that
his center had done was a day when
all the students had to cook. Food
items were brought in and the children
were divided in groups. They had to
put the stuff together and come up
with a dish. Rahul says this was his
favourite day. His team made a “bean
salad” which he was very proud
of. They didn’t win a prize but
the judge – Radhika Didi did
say that his was one of the best.
He says there was too much salt in
their salad and that’s the reason
he didn’t win. He prefers Akanksha
to his formal school as the Didi’s
at Akanksha do not scream or hit the
students. Rahul has become more confident
after joining Akanksha. He started
speaking much better English in just
about a month and he was also promoted
from level 1 to level 3. His proudest
moment is when he was selected for
LTL.
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