About Speaker: Yogendra Bangar is the founder of Aajibaichi Shala, India’s first school for grandmothers. The school focuses to provide quality education to our Indian Grannies. The school was founded in 2016 on International Women’s Day in Fangane village in Maharashtra. Bangar is an activist and the zila parishad teacher of the Motiram Dalal Charitable Trust. The school had a simple name, it was set up by a simple man, and the idea was also simple. However, the simplest of ideas are somehow always the most life changing. This was a school set up solely for elderly women of Fangane, who wished to be able to pick up pencils as their children and grandchildren did and sign their names. Today, they wear bright pink saree-uniforms and head to school together to learn their rhymes, math, alphabet, and art — and like any other students, complain about homework and tests. They are living a life they never had access to. Pretty in pink, sprightly of step and wide toothy and toothless smiles are what their Sundays are about now. Aajibaichi Shala is a Maharashtrian grandmother’s lesson to all of India, and it’s one of India’s proudest stories. #INSPIRE #WhySchoolsMatter?
