Winner all the way: autorickshaw driver’s daughter fights all odds to pursue dreams

Mumbai | Friday | 10th August, 2018

Summary:

The school selects meritorious girl students for its secondary school programme, offering them financial assistance if needed. In May 2013, she was selected as the protagonist of Teach For India’s (TFI) Broadway-style musical Maya, which had 30 other children from various Pune schools participating. But the daughter of an autorickshaw driver in Kondhwa, Pune, who has lived with leukoderma all her life, comes across as articulate and self-assured. She saw how students from other schools were given an opportunity to integrate values and extra-curricular activities with academics. So this is a token of gratitude I’m giving myself.”All her academic life, Rutuja was a shy, but focused student..