Ester’s family includes her father, his two wives, their twelve children, and her grandparents who all live on a small farm in Lendikenya Village. Because Lendikenya is quite far away from school, Ester stays with her uncle who lives closer to school and visits her family on the weekends. The family works hard to support themselves on their subsistence farm and are very supportive of Ester’s education. However, they lack the means for expenses such as school fees. Ester aims to help the poor and disadvantaged people in her community by taking the kids to school, building better homes, and teaching them good nutrition.

Elma most admires her cousin Mercy who took her in after her father died. Elma says she loves math because “it only involves playing with the figures. It makes on active and the brain well functioning especially in the morning hours.”

Since Ngirunga’s father died many years ago, his mother has supported her four children by herself. Ngirunga now lives with his mother who is a subsistence farmer, his younger sister who is in primary school, and his two older brothers. His older brothers did not have the opportunity to go to secondary school and now work at home on the family farm. Ngirunga hopes to be able to receive a quality education so that he can give back to his family and ensure that his sister also goes to secondary school.

Subhi's hobbies are to visit new places and playing kho-kho. She likes sports. She participated in sports competition in kho-kho competition. She is the eldest of her five siblings. She wants to be a teacher.

Hello I am Rekha. I am about 14 years old girl. I am in grade 6. I like play football and kho-kho. I am foodie person so I like to eat noodles and pakaudi. I like cook food. I have three younger sisters. I am the eldest one. I like doing mathematics and English poems. I like to teach my younger bothers. I am happy that I am the part of swabhiman program. In my leisure time I like watch Hindi movies. I help my mother in domestic work I want to be a teacher.

Savita likes to cook food and wants to be a home science teacher. She likes to read Hindi books. She is drop out girl. This year she has enrolled herself under Swabhiman program at SLRC. She is the first born of her three siblings. Her mother is a home maker and father is farmer.

Samjhana was very young when her father died. Her mother is in the village.

Ram's father abandoned the family and his mother is in the village. His financial situation is not good.

Balbahador's mother abandoned the family when he was very young and his father died at the age of 14.