16-year-old Asha Gond is a tribal girl from a little known village called Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. When she swings by on her skateboard, you’d be hard pressed to realize that she is actually the same girl who attend six weeks training in an Oxford school UK. For Asha, who travels seven kms to the neighboring Panna village for further studies, the opportunity to learn the English language in UK is a dream come true.
Homegrown had earlier done a story about how a German woman Ulrike Reinhard has changed the trajectory of Janwaar with the skate park they built called ‘Janwaar Castle.’ Children can skate here, draw, paint and learn how to speak in English and that’s where Ulrike saw Asha’s determination. Ulrike told us in an email: “This is what I’ve said during a talk about the Asha story: Asha, the 16 year old Adivasi girl, finished 10th grade. She did very well in the English course during our summer camp last year in June. So I promised her to take her to England to learn better English. It took me 8 months to convince her parents to let her go. I went to their house many times

 

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