We ascended 5 flights of stairs in the dim light of a govt. housing project. Parts were so dark I was literally afraid I would step on one of the children that kept darting in and out of the hallways.
At the end of the hall on the 5th floor were a dozen women, huddled in a circle, sitting on the floor of the hall way. Blankets had been put on the floor to create a sense of boundary for the class that was being held. It was a literacy class using the LEI bible content Hindi primer (basic reader).
They had stayed late, so that they could personally thank me as the representative of the organization that had created the cirriculum they were using. I was escorted to a very humble apartment where I was served chai and a cookie as sign of further gratitude for teaching them to read.
God is doing a marvelous work in one of the poorest sections of Patna, in the state of Bihar, arguably the poorest state in India. God is hearing the cry of the non-reading majority in Northern India and sending literacy workers to bring sight to the blind, comfort to those who are morning.
May God bless those faithful servants serving new readers in Patna.
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