The years nobody photographed
When I started my career, phones had buttons. There was no Instagram, no reels, no posting about where you had been that day. You walked into a school, met the teachers in the staffroom, stood in front of a classroom full of children, and did the work.
So I never kept count. I honestly cannot tell you how many schools I have trained in, how many teachers I have sat with, or how many children have learned to read, speak and tell their stories in those sessions. There are almost no photographs of those years.
Those years shaped everything I do today. Every storytelling workshop, every phonics session and every teacher training I run still carries the same belief: real learning happens when people are fully present with each other.
— Dr. Sheettal Rayathatha
