LUCKNOW: Last year in December, a government aided inter-college in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya District received a consignment of over 300 books for its library. The books were donated by a 16-year-old US based NRI, Alisha Madhuvarshi, who was born in Delhi, but now based in Houston, Texas.
The teenager spends her summer vacation giving mathematics tuition to students who find the subject difficult, and the money she raised from teaching is spent on buying books and other materials for underprivileged children of India. Back in 2020 she managed 800$ by giving virtual classes of maths, and bought sanitary pads, school bags, sports kit for inmates of an orphanage based in Polampalli village of Mancherial district, Telangana. In 2021, she donated books for Pragati Maidan (New Delhi) based Sabki Pathshala run by Nitu Singh for underprivileged children and, 2022, she managed to donate 10 chairs and close to 300 books from her earnings to Vedic Inter college Dibiyapur which is 180 km away from state capital Lucknow.
