Shri Rawatpura Sarkar International School

We’ve been out here in Dhaneli for a while now. Most people around Raipur know the spot where the Rawatpura Sarkar Lok Kalyan Trust set things up. It’s a big space and it gets pretty busy when the buses arrive in the morning. You can hear the kids from the road. The sun gets quite hot in Chhattisgarh, so we try to keep the hallways cool. It isn’t always quiet, especially during lunch breaks. We have teachers who have been here since the start and some new faces too. The school building stands out when you're driving toward Dhaneli. It’s just a place where kids come to learn their lessons and play a bit of football in the dirt. We spend a lot of time organizing the classrooms and making sure the chalkboards are clean for the next day. Sometimes the power goes out, and we just open the windows and keep going. It’s a regular school day most of the time. People from the trust come by to check on things often. We just focus on getting through the syllabus and making sure the gate is locked on time. It feels like a small community inside those walls. We don’t have fancy speeches here, just a lot of books and desks and noise. That’s how it’s been for years. We just keep the gates open for the families around this part of Raipur.