A modest dream, one may think. But not for Nagalakshmi.

Her father is an unemployed laborer and her mother works as housemaid. They are too poor to send her to a good school. 

But last year, Nagalakshmi's future began to look a lot brighter.

She began attending the Icfai Republic School (IRS), an English-medium school having 800 students like Nagalakshmi with good teachers, and facilities and infrastructure - spacious classrooms, computer and audio-visual labs, play areas, clean and modern toilets - that match the best.

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Neelima lost her husband in a fire accident a couple of years ago. In her distress, she came to know of the school and applied for the post of an ayah. Now she works at IRS and both her young children also study there, and she is able to stand on her own feet.
 

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My father works in a factory. The school took care of me when I suffered from brain fever. Kishore Sir and Mahesh Sir came to the hospital and visited me. Now I am fine.
 

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