A train platform is where you wait for a train. The train stops. Some people get on. Some people get off. The trains goes.

India is a big country. It has many trains. It has many train platforms. Many poor people live nearby. They have children. They can’t pay for school. The children have to work. They go to the train platforms. They beg for money.

Inderjit lives in India. She is a teacher. She worked in a school. She rode the train to work. She saw these children every day. She wanted to help them. So she left her job. She started a school. The school was on the train platform. She started to teach. She made the learning fun. She sang songs with the children. She danced with them. She played games with them. She even made a puppet show.

Inderjit teaches reading. She teaches math. She teaches how to be healthy.

Only 20 children came at first. Then 50 children. Then 100 children. The children can come and go. They can leave when they need to. This makes it easy for the children to go to school.

Inderjit’s school helped lots of children. She wanted to help more children. She opened another school. Then she opened another one. Now she has 70 schools. The schools are on different train platforms. She does not teach at every school. Each school has a different teacher.

Inderjit has to find money to pay for the schools. Nice people give money to Inderjit’s schools. They want to help Inderjit. They want to help poor children. Inderjit’s schools help many children. They learn to read. They learn math. They learn how to be healthy. They learn how to find jobs. They do not have to beg for money anymore.