Kanika dreams of a better future for her family

Kanika is a confident and energetic eight-year-old. Her family consists of her parents and three sisters. Kanika is the youngest of the three sisters. Her family has moved four times in the last two years from one slum to another in Delhi in search of a better livelihood. Despite the constant moving, education is Kanika’s first priority. Her parents are well-educated and her sisters are currently attending college. She loves to study and learn Hindi as she feels it is vital to be fluent in one’s own mother tongue. She isn’t very fond of English as her whole community encourages learning in Hindi.

Kanika says that Pratham has very good books on display which sharpen her visual and cognitive skills. One of the things that she recently learned and loves to share with others is reading the time. One of her cousins is an engineer and that is Kanika’s dream profession, too. After studying and playing games in the park beside her house, she loves to help her mother cook the evening meal. Her favorite food is rice and dal and she says that she knows how to cook various types of dal.

She feels that there is a still a long way to go in order for her to reach her dreams but that is the only way she will be able to change the lifestyle of her family for the future.

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