Abhyasa Vidya Vihar School

This school is tucked off the Nikol Naroda Road in the Nava Naroda part of town. It’s not right on the main street, so you have to turn off to actually find us. The area has changed a lot since we first started. There are more shops and houses around now than there used to be ten years ago. Every morning, the local kids walk over or come on their cycles from the nearby streets. We don't have a giant campus with fancy fields, but we make use of every corner we have. The classrooms have high ceilings which helps when the summer heat starts hitting Ahmedabad. I spend a lot of time talking to the parents who live nearby. Most of them are working people who just want their kids to learn their lessons well. We don’t use a lot of technology or gadgets here. It’s mostly just books and pens and teachers talking at the front of the room. Sometimes the bell rings a few minutes late because someone forgot to check the clock, but that’s just how it goes in a place like this. We have a small yard where the students gather for the morning prayer and announcements. It gets a bit cramped when everyone is out there at once. The walls could probably use a fresh coat of paint, but we focus more on what's happening inside the books. It’s a very local kind of place. People know the teachers by their names.