At Nalgonda A.P.R.S. Boy’s Residential School the chalkboard eraser is a newspaper. The students unfold the front page, read the headlines, the day’s events are then torn up and the paper is used to erase the board. Is someone willing to donate erasers to this school? The boy’s lessons are wiped out by current events.

Here are some images students wrote on the back of index cards with their name to describe their daily life. The language is simple:

Mohammed Saleem
I have seen a tree of apples and the men who steal them
I have seen a picture of a Matador a bull is hitting
My house is behind the big Mango trees
Where men are walking their road.

Munna:
Water is moving on earth
Sun is falling on earth
We are walking on the earth
Moving a bike, running for the bus.

Suleyman Ali is a promising students at the A.P.R.S. Boys residential school

Suleyman Ali
My house with a white wall, 5 people, a big tree and a garden around it
A river with water flowing, fishes moving, a bridge upon it
Michael Jackson, a tall man wearing a golden cloth and dancing
A sir teaching students. The students looking at the black of the blackboard
A lion, killing a rabit by jumping on it and eating its flesh.

Sirajuddin (Baba)

Siraj Uddin (Baba)
My friend
Short
Tall his Face
Smart his Face
Fat his body
He wears his clothes dirty

Siraj Uddin (Baba)
My school ground
grass
dogs
killing a rat:
our school.

Mohammed Saleem
Reflections on problems in my community: Smoking is a very big problem in our community. Now a days even small children start smoking. Through smoking many people die in our community. Air pollution is also a big problem. Because of air pollution human beings started suffering from many diseases in our community and the ozone layers in the atmosphere are getting smaller and the heat is seducing us more day by day. But, mainly, the air is polluted by smoke of vehicles and factories!