H2O-India talks about the joys and travails of running a school at a basti in Gurgaon.

Once the school started, the volunteers realized that the inhabitants lead a very hard life. It could not be taken for granted that once the school had started, the children will keep on attending on their own. The parents as well as the children had to be kept motivated all the time. So the volunteers kept visiting the school as well as the basti on a regular basis.

If you wish to do something and you have a maid working in the house, have you ever thought about putting her kids in school? It does not cost much and can make a real difference to the life of those kids.

PS. The post I have linked to is dated but the effort is surely worth linking to.