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Environmentalist turns graveyard into school for poverty-stricken children in central India

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An environmentalist, Mahesh Tiwari, along with his team, improvised a school out of a graveyard in central India's Madhya Pradesh. Visuals shot on February 11 feature the school, known as Muktidham, located in the Naryawali checkpoint region of the Sagar district.

Visuals witnessing the incident feature a class in session. Several students playfully engage in studies amid a clearing surrounded by trees. The walls of the graveyard are painted in different colors and have academic content written on them.

A section of the walls is also covered in black paint and acts as a blackboard. Mahesh enthusiastically educates the children about different topics through several curated activities.

Mahesh and his team visited the graveyard for a plantation drive. They wanted to plant several trees that required open space to grow and therefore ended up at the graveyard, where they encountered a group of children. Belonging to a poverty-stricken background, these children used to collect the coins, thrown out during the last rites of the graveyard's visitors.

After talking to them, Mahesh treated the situation as an opportunity and decided to rid the children of their predicament. He, along with his team, turned the graveyard into a habitable location and started a school for the unfortunate. They planted several trees in the region, painted the walls boundary walls, and arranged for the study material. They also distributed cloth bags and sitting mats to the students.

The environment-friendly school has allotted different names to different groups of students to instill historical awareness in them. The girls' team is called Laxmi Bai, the boys' team is called Maharana Pratap, and the team for students till the third grade is called Subhash Chandra Bose.

Muktidham has been successfully operating for 1.6 months and is educating nearly 100 students in the region. The initiative kicked off as a trial with just two students, but the number increased with time. Not just that, Mahesh and his team have also planted over 500 trees in the region. Moreover, Muktidham received an overwhelming response from the community as well.

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