signal shala

The Better India along with Samarth Bharat Vyaspith, launched a campaign to identify families and children staying at Teen Hath Naka signal in Thane and raise awareness and funds for the Signal Shala school.

The #UnlockPotential campaign Powered by Seven Seas and The Better India culminated with the on-ground events being simultaneously organised in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru on Mother’s Day.

Shraddha has been working with Signal Shala for over a year now, and life hasn’t been any better or more gratifying for her.

Kalpana, 12, a street child who stays under Teen Haat Naka flyover in Mumbai, could have died of malaria last month had it not been for the help arranged by Signal Shala.

18-year-old Mohan could only study till class 7 in his village school. In Mumbai, he had to beg and sell flowers on the streets to support his family. But today, there is hope for him. Today, he is a class 8 student in the Signal School.

Satish Pawar’s family came to Mumbai from Beed district in Maharashtra in the year 1997 with the hope of finding work in the big city and building a better future for themselves. But little did they know that they’d have to spend their lives on the streets for years and generations to come.

Mumbai is now home to India’s first Signal School – a colourful classroom created out of a shipping container under a traffic signal flyover in Thane. This is how it operates.