Salima Khan spent her childhood in a village in Bulandshahr, India, where there was no education for girls. Now, at 92 years old, she is going to school for the first time and learning to read and write, inspiring others to do the same.
This Indian woman was born in 1931, married at the age of 14, and for the past six months, she has been sitting with her daughter-in-law, Firdaus, next to children eight decades younger than her, some of whom are her great-grandchildren. , to study. His story became known after a video of him counting to one hundred went viral. “My grandchildren tricked me into giving them more money because I didn’t know how to count,” he told the Times of India. “Those days are over.”
Inspired by her example, 25 women from her city began attending literacy classes, the school’s principal, Pratibha Sharma, told the Times of India.
Guinness World Records lists Kimani Ng’anja Maruge, from Kenya, who has since died, as the oldest person to complete primary education, having entered an educational institution in 2004 at the age of 84. India’s literacy rate is about 73%, according to the 2011 census.
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