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Investing in Indias tomorrow
Vidyashree, a 15-year-old with doleful eyes and a soiled but tidy green and white school uniform, works as a servant every morning and evening, making less than $9 a month. In between shifts, she attends school.
The teenager is direct: She does not want to follow the path of her poor parents. She wants out of the slums.
She glimpsed her way out when the computers arrived this summer at Government High School, Cotton Pet, courtesy of Silicon Valleys American India Foundation, a group of high-powered executives who are reinvesting in their country of birth and in the process redefining how immigrants give back to their homeland.
Although the teenagers have grown up in Indias technological mecca, a city of modern office campuses for countless engineers writing code for the worlds elite companies, they had not seen up close, let alone touched, a keyboard before. Vidyashree hopes that learning how to operate a computer and speak English will persuade her parents to let her continue school instead of dropping out to work as a maid and get married.
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