She formulated the prototype, which was first tried out on an experimental basis for five years, before introducing it in municipal schools in Mumbai. Presently, the Sangati program is jointly funded with support from Unicef, Cry and the Seattle-based Asha for Education.Each Sangati kit comprises of a set of visual aids like flip charts, posters, materials to be shown in class and worksheets. After every class follows a dassroom activity to make learning easier for the children. For instance, children are given crushed papers and asked to aim it at plastic bottles placed on the ler's table. Energy levels soar as mts take their best shots. Now, ittles are each endowed an identity—that of a father of four, a dedicated teacher, a school going child etc. Again the students are asked to hit the bottles with the crushed paper aka 'stones.' This time no one moves except for one boy Before he can strike, his teacher tells him, "The one you are aiming at is a mother who is a domestic worker like your own. Now do you want to hit her?" The boy, Nikhil Walanju, shakes his head and drops his arm.

After every class, students are given worksheets for interviewing people around them. "These are students who are vulnerable economically and socially Besides learning values of integration, they have to accept that there are no such things as an ideal family: each family is unique in itself. Eventually they will learn to look at family as the microcosm of society" says Dhuru.