It turned out there were many children like Moy Moy whose parents couldn’t find schools. The school (initially called Karuna Vihar, after Moy Moy’s Daadi) led seamlessly to other initiatives: an active awareness campaign, an early learning centre and a training centre for young adults.
As we learned through doing, new ideas kept emerging. We needed a place to debate them and make them into programs and hence the Resource Center was born. Wabi-Sabi formalized all our efforts in school and social inclusion and Adda was formed as a club for disabled adults.
By the time Moy passed, she had been in a wheelchair and non-speaking for many years. It was as if she got smaller and quieter as the work she’d inspired got bigger and more of a force. When she passed away on 30 July 2018, she’d changed the world in a way that few can. Her memory lives on through Latika and its work and through the lives of all the people she touched along the way.
The new building handover took place in March, 2026 in the presence of the staff, our donors, neighbors, family and close friends.
After a few more weeks of frantic cleaning and preparation, we welcomed our children and their families to the new premises on April 20.
