On a windy Tuesday evening at a classroom by the sea, dozens of students looked up from their books as the monsoon rode in on black clouds — first a taunting drizzle, and then a Biblical deluge sweeping down and under flip-flops and backpacks.
Malika Kerketta was tired of sitting. The 10-year-old had finished her English lessons under the blue tarp at the corner of Bandstand, a pathway tracing the shoreline in Mumbai’s Bandra neighborhood, where a non-profit organization called Angel Xpress has created an outdoor learning center.
She got up to face a small blackboard perched on a wooden stand. “My dad drives a water tanker, my mom cleans houses,” she told me in Hindi, as she swirled her palms across the damp surface. “And I come here to play and learn.”
[For more of this story, written by Ankita Rao, go to https://medium.com/bright/the-...s-seams-4166aa8c3b4b]
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