At this moment, I am reaching out to you on behalf of all young girls in Mumbai who are literally fighting for their identity and survival every single day and are in dire need of your help. It is ironic that Mumbai, the ‘City of Dreams’, cradles few, but is the graveyard of many more. When faced with financial difficulties in their home towns, people from all over the country flock to Mumbai, a city of lights and dreams. This is fragmentation of the truth. When they step into the city with a pocketful of coins, these people are more often than not, hit hard by perpetually sky-rocketing prices, that instantly eat into their meagre savings. In these circumstances, education is their last priority. Even if some families do look at education, it is purely for the mid-day meals, one less mouth to feed. Education is never really regarded as the way out of poverty, as they themselves are uneducated. This is the vicious cycle that has engulfed this nation, and if we can so much as start at one city, one organization, one child, we will have transformed generations to come. By granting a girl child education, you have taught her more than fighting for her survival, you have taught her to thrive. This girl who knew nothing more than darkness, will carry the mission forward, and show her children, light.