Thirteen year old Nabakanta Bongjang originates from the remote tribal village of Garbhanga on the Assam Meghalaya border. He courageously left his family in 2005 and joined the rest of the hostel children here at Parajat academy.
Five years later Nabakanta is reading, writing and speaking fluently in his Assamesse mother tongue and striving to learn Hindi and English. He excels in art and music and is popular amongst the other students. Nabakanta often draws and paints in his spare time and takes extracurricular lessons, learning to play the native tabla drums. When asked what he wishes to do after school he replied with a smile, “I want to become an artist and return to my village and share with the tribal children what I have been able to learn here.”
If Nabakanta had stayed in his village, he would have followed in his father’s footsteps and become a farmer or woodcutter. But Nabakanta had a different vision of his future and saw education was the way forward and choose to take up the opportunity to receive an education at school.
Five years later Nabakanta is reading, writing and speaking fluently in his Assamesse mother tongue and striving to learn Hindi and English. He excels in art and music and is popular amongst the other students. Nabakanta often draws and paints in his spare time and takes extracurricular lessons, learning to play the native tabla drums. When asked what he wishes to do after school he replied with a smile, “I want to become an artist and return to my village and share with the tribal children what I have been able to learn here.”
If Nabakanta had stayed in his village, he would have followed in his father’s footsteps and become a farmer or woodcutter. But Nabakanta had a different vision of his future and saw education was the way forward and choose to take up the opportunity to receive an education at school.
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