Ashwini is married with a five month old son, Dhwaj. She joined the programme because she wanted to grow as a person and she’d like to be able to heach her children English. She has and HSC pass in Science and she wants to train to be a nurse in the future. Her ambition is to become a military nurse where she would have a good salray and a permanent job. It is important to her to be able to support her family finically.

Tushar worked in the billing department of an air conditioning company for six years. He left his job a year ago because he wanted to improve his English skills. He has lived with his family in Dharavi his whole life but he’s planning to get a place of his own in the near future. He is really enjoying the programme, but he finds speaking English especially difficult. In the future, he would like to work in and office, or find another job that allows him to use English and computer skills.