In less than a week after the lockdown was imposed, the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) set up a toll-free helpline so that people in distress could call and receive help.
The PPES runs a topnotch school for 1,600 rural girls in Anupshahr in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. Most people in this largely agrarian community are marginal farmers.
The school was started in 2000, by Virendra ‘Sam’ Singh after he retired as president and managing director of DuPont, South Asia. His ambition was to start a school for girls in his home town. . .