Teen Haat Signal flyover

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

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.