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It was during the pandemic when Samara Chauhan volunteered for virtual community service projects that she learned about the inequities in education first-hand. Speaking to a group of students from a local public school, she found that many of them didn’t have access to what she and her peers considered ‘basic’ amenities.
This instance piqued her curiosity, and she slowly got in touch with schools from other localities. The glaring differences appalled her and nudged her strong sense of justice and equality.
After conducting preliminary research and poring over secondary sources, facilitating meet-ups and focus groups, she found that, in many public schools, limited funding, scarce resources, and diverse student populations qui