Children's Day: From a Dream Carved in Stone

When most children in the city geared up to celebrate Children's Day, children working in quarries Wagholi live life education dreams and ambitions of their limited education.

Without a permanent home to call their own, these children are moved with her parents from one career to another to earn a living.

Most of them are students of the school to work at the quarry. These deprived, but energetic children who live difficult lives without conveniences, have a long list of aspirations.

"One day, I want to make the building is 10 floors," said 12-year-old Ganesh Vitkar, standard student of VI Santulan Pashan Shala (PCA) in Wagholi. Although the students belong to families here who have an indifferent attitude to education, their keenness to learn is that the defeat of conservatism and limitations.

"The hardest part is to convince families to send their children to school. They do not realize that without the formation of children's lives will be limited to the quarry," said B. Dhone, teacher SPS.

Despite this, the children won drabness of his life in the quarries, and made it colorful for themselves. Some of them are inclined to music, but some people like sports. Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and actor Laxmikant Berde icons are admired by the children. Some of them could not even hum a few lines of Munni badnam hui.What surprised us was that most of these children were aware of what's happening in the country. "Corruption swept the country. I would like to make an effort on my part to stop this, and, therefore, will practice law as a career," said Aishwarya Vitkar, a standard VI student of the PCA.

As Aishwarya, most of these children have been a dream for yourself .  Although some would like to become engineers and doctors who joined the police or the army, and on maps for many. This eagerness among children have their parents
support their children's education.

"My life has been wasted in the quarries of the lack of education. But I do not want the same to happen with the children. I want to learn and to dream of a promising future for
themselves, "said Anjana Vetal.

BM Rege, founder-director Santulan, an NGO that runs the school for these children, told DNA, "These children deserve the same benefits as other children, because they have similar aspirations. Governments should stop neglecting their needs and should give them their rights.

Children's Day: From a Dream Carved in Stone