Vivekananda School

Vivekananda School sits out in Khelar, which is part of the Puri district in Odisha. It’s a bit of a drive to get out here, but it’s where we are. The address is 752114 if you are looking it up. The school building isn't anything too special to look at, just a solid place where the students come every morning. You can usually see the kids walking down the road in their uniforms long before the first bell rings. We have some open space around us, which is nice when the wind blows through. In the afternoons, it gets pretty warm, and everyone is just waiting for the day to end so they can go home. We have a few rooms and a main area where we gather. The teachers here have been around for a bit, so they know most of the families in the area. It’s a small-town kind of life. There’s no big fancy signs or anything like that. We just have the name on the front and we do our work inside. Sometimes the goats from the nearby farms wander a bit too close to the fence and we have to shoo them away. Life moves at a slower pace here in Khelar. We just try to make sure the lessons are done and the kids learn something useful for their future. It’s a humble setup, but it’s been working for us and the people who live around here for quite some time now.