K’taka teacher couple help to lease house, financial assistance for students

By N.B. Hombal Bengaluru, Jan 3 : An English language teacher couple working in a government school in Mysuru walked the extra mile to help two meritorious students and bring a smile to their faces.
Vani, along with her husband, who is professor in Maharani College in Mysuru, came to the rescue of the children.
Vani’s students – R. Rakshita and Pallavi – studying in class 10 are bright students who consistently secured ‘A+’ grades in examinations since 8th standard. Both students are sincere, dedicated and hardworking but they lived in utter poverty and their mothers could not afford square meals a day, as they had lost their menial jobs due to the Covid pandemic.
With schools shut for nearly 10 months due to Covid and being deprived of their mid-day meals, it had become even more difficult for the two girls to fill their bellies. One of the students, Rakshita had to worry about her house as well, as it was in a dilapidated condition.
As these students started showing less interest in their studies, the worried teacher took a small trip to their village on the outskirts to meet them. Both students initially resisted her coming over to their houses, but the determined teacher asserted that she would meet them in their homes.
To her shock, in Pallavi’s home there was no ration while in Rakshita’s house, apart from no rations, the condition of her house was even worse as it would have taken one or two spells of rains to knock down the entire structure.