This writeup was received from Mr Rangarajan Ganesan who work at IIT Madras. Mr Rangarajan is also associated with Indian Literacy Project, a group doing excellent socially relevant work in the area of rural education and literacy. Here are two remarkable instances of individuals who have achieved success in life with assistance from ILP. www.ilpnet.org/

Tamilarasan is from first batch scholarship students supported by ILP Chennai chapter. He was identified from the brick kiln when he was engaged with labor work of loading the bricks. He expressed interest to study and thus he started his journey into college education. He joined his B.Sc. Chemistry in the year 2014 and he was constantly mentored during his college days. He completed his graduation (2014-17) and came out as class topper with a distinction. That was a proud moment for his parents and our organization.

Further he got his admission in Presidency college for his post-graduation. He was also mentored by Ms. Shobana, Chemistry professor with SIET on what are all the options available after his post-graduation. He completed his PG course (2017-19) with 82% overall marks. He is at present working as Technical Analyst in Pondicherry and working hard towards getting a Government job. He is also interested in pursuing his National Eligibility Test (NET) for becoming a teaching faculty in higher education and also doing Ph.D.

Saraswathi our ILP staff comes from a humble background. She completed her Engineering (2010-14)and worked in a Software Company. Her heart was more towards social service, teaching and working with children and hence decided to join a NGO. She worked with another NGO for short duration before joining our organization.

She always likes ILP for its transparency and freedom to work in her designated area. She was the resource person when we started our first MDLS at Anaikattucherry. The school has exceled in its library program. At present; she is the facilitating MDLS program through a partner NGO of ILP i.e. IRCDS in 6 blocks, which has 18 MDLS and 13 libraries. She is an honest person and has a good rapport with the students and teachers easily.