Dr. Rathore himself is a professor of economics. He spared his time to build this school brick by brick. He used his savings and his network to support this school. He is rarely found in his home and is mostly seen in and around Shiv Bari area, where he is talking to people, interacting with students and motivating parents. He visits door to door requesting people to send their students to school. He recalls with pride that the school started with just 7 students in 2002 in a rented place (which was a poultry farm before that), and today it has over 300 students, most of whom would never had been to school otherwise. With his small savings, he purchased the school building in 2004 and built one room in each year thereafter to strengthen the school infrastructure. His creativity and low cost construction techniques enabled him to build a great school out of his small individual savings. Today he finds the students from the first few batches pursuing vocational education and professional education. Girdhari Singh, a chokidar, in a nearby college sent his daughters for education upon Dr. Rathore's request. Today his daughters are about be become engineers, which Girdhari Singh could never even dream of.Social Entrepreneurship is never really about the money or place or facilities available. It just takes one man with enough leadership in him and a vision to educate the people around him. We appreciate Dr. Rathore for an initiative of this kind and for keeping it going for more than 10 years now. We hope to inspire a lot more leaders through stories like Dr. Rathore's.
