Today I want to share with you a detail about Jui, a girl, she is my husband’s distant relative but we have a good family relation and she lives 6 kilometers far from our location. Jui came to our house with her mothers and stayed for a few weeks. She saw me conducting a micro-school for little children and became interested in learning, especially math. She went to school for a year at an early age then stopped for a family crisis. Now her guardians want to arrange her marriage at the age of 17. Knowing this fact, I shared with my friends in school and discussed the demerits of early marriage for a girl. Finally, her father agreed and he requested me to keep Jui at my home to give her a basic education and I agreed. As she has grown up and my children in micro-school are little, I connected her with our schoolteacher Surma for teaching. However, I teach her Bengali & Math but English was a bit difficult for me. She is doing well and self-motivated. I teach her addition, division, subtraction and multiply and practice reading newspapers to gather knowledge and to be updated. Now she can read well but she needs a few more months to be good at English. I am happy to see her present progress and some of my neighbor girls are also getting lessons from me. People in our slum are getting interested in can reading newspaper and widely the illiterate elderly people want to know about the news which is a good sign of positiveness. 

 

As a mother-teacher, I want to develop more child-teachers and adolescent girls in our slum to educate all neighbor’s children.