Building Dreams: Babu Dilip’s 2 Crore INR Mission to Ensure No One Should Be Denied Quality Education Due to Poverty at Avaniyapuram Government High School

In the heart of Madurai’s Avaniyapuram community lies a government high school that serves over 400 students from grades 6 through 12, providing an essential lifeline to affordable education for children from surrounding poor and middle-class families. While private schools in the area offer better facilities, they come with hefty fees that many local families simply cannot afford. For these families, Avaniyapuram Government High School is their only hope for a quality education. However, like many under-resourced institutions, the school faces numerous challenges: insufficient classrooms, inadequate furniture, and the absence of essential science labs.

The absence of dedicated Physics and Chemistry labs has made learning science especially challenging for students in grades 11 and 12, who must travel to distant schools to complete their lab work and exams - a time-consuming and costly inconvenience that disrupts their studies and limits their potential to thrive in scientific fields. Furthermore, the lack of enough classrooms has led to overcrowding, impacting the quality of education and focus in the learning environment. The school also has no multipurpose hall, leaving students with no indoor space for events or gatherings and no shelter during lunch breaks in rainy weather.

Moved by the hardships faced by these students, Babu Dilip decided to take on an ambitious project to transform the school into a more welcoming, functional, and dignified place of learning. His belief that “no one should be denied quality education due to poverty” became his guiding principle as he committed to building a new, fully equipped school facility that would meet the students’ needs and create opportunities for growth, learning, and joy.