Anjana Rajagopal with her children at an orphanage she started in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 26 years ago. Disturbed by the sight of destitute children being exploited all around, Anjana launched Sai Kripa, an NGO, to effect a lasting change in the lives of homeless children regardless of religion, caste, race, ethnicity or gender. In 1991, Anjana started an English medium school in Wazidpur Village, Noida. “Since village children also needed a school so I started a school with the name Sai Shiksha Sansthan in Wazidpur. In this school, children from the village and from our Sai Kripa home study,” says Anjana. The school, which was started with just 80 children, has more than 400 now. So far, 15 batches have passed class10 from the school. For the children in the shelter home, and for many in the school, 61-year-old Anjana is their ‘mother’; and for the younger lot and the newborns, she is their ‘grandmother’, but everyone calls her ‘Mummy’
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