LUCKNOW: Class 10 student Kashish was on cloud nine after she came to know about her selection to a prestigious scholarship — the US department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme — that invites high school students from countries of strategic importance to the US for an academic year.
Living in a two-room house in Digdiga locality in Gomtinagar’s Vishal Khand, 16 year-old Kashish had spent hours tutoring kids during the Covid-19 pandemic to support her mother, Shashi, a single-parent, in making both ends meet.
