Harekala Hajabba turned one painful moment into a mission to build a village school

For most people, a language barrier is a small inconvenience. For Harekala Hajabba, one such moment became the beginning of a mission that would change the lives of hundreds of children. Hajabba was selling oranges near a bus stand in Mangaluru when a foreign tourist approached him and asked him something in English. He could not understand a single word. He could not answer the question either. That moment made him think about his own life. Hajabba had never gone to school. He knew what it meant to grow up without education, and he did not want children in his village to face the same disadvantage. So, an orange seller with very little money decided to build a school. What followed was a remarkable journey of saving small amounts from his daily earnings, facing doubts and criticism, finding support and eventually turning an impossible-looking dream into reality.