Kashish Yadav (Ph: 8354072245), daughter of a single mother who works as a house help, has scored  
95.2% in her class 12 CBSE exams. She started her education with Study Hall Educational Foundation’s (SHEF) Prerna Girls School but because of her exceptional academic performance she was given a scholarship by SHEF to continue her education at Study Hall School. Earlier, she also studied in the USA for a year under the Kennedy-Lugar YES scholarship.

Kashish lost her father at the age of five. Her mother, Shashi is a single parent, raising three daughters and works at a women’s self help group, where she makes dry snacks and pickles.

“I dealt with society when they questioned me for not having a son and raising three daughters alone after losing my husband. I was able to send all my daughters to school because of Prerna School. I don’t need a son, I have my daughters”, says Shashi. In the past, 10 girls had been selected from Study Hall Educational Foundation for the YES programme to study in the US. The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme brings high school students from countries of strategic importance to the United States for an academic year