After Savita K. Shenavi’s father passed away, the family had only his pension to live on, and it barely covered the basics. Her younger brother and sister were still studying, and there was very little left over for Savita’s own education.

Help A Child covered what the family couldn’t. Savita completed her bachelor’s degree in computer science and got a job as a software developer at Hewlett IT Co. in Bangalore.

Now she is the one her family leans on. She looks after her mother and brother, and she has given them a kind of security they didn’t have while she was growing up.