Women's Feature Service, May 3rd, 2004
Bhubaneshwar, (WFS) - Fifty-seven-year-old Tulasi Munda still has the eyes of a five-year-old who yearned - more than anything else in the world - to go school, but couldn't. It's quite another matter that she received one of India's highest awards, the Padmashree, in 2001.
"Education is not for earning, education is Life," explains Tulasi. Her strong conviction encourages many tribal families to respond. Her school in Serenda village - 15 kms from Barbil, the iron and manganese mining hub in Keonjhar district of Orissa - accommodates 525 students from tribal families. Run under the umbrella ...
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