Every great mission has a small beginning. Some 20 students hit Adalat Ghat on Sunday morning with a unique mission: enlighten underprivileged children with education.

At a time the slum children are denied proper guidance in life, the students — who formed an organisation, Valets of India, on July 26 — have taken the mantle to teach such kids of basic education and also extend educational facilities to them.

Ujjwal Singh, a Class XII student of Holy Mission School told The Telegraph: “Keeping in mind the poor and neglected children, I decided to start an organisation of my own, which would ensure their welfare. For this, the first most important thing is to provide them education and therefore I, along with my team members, have selected slum children and selected Adalat Ghat near Pirbhore police station as our first stop.”

Ujjwal said Valets of India members met parents of the slum children on July 31, adding: “It was great to find them supporting us and willing to help us in every manner.”

Vivek Vishal, a former student of Don Bosco Academy and studying in Holy Mission School at present, said: “What we found the best part of both our visits was that the slum children were eager to study. There are around 150 students in the area (Adalat Ghat). Out of these, some students are indulged in begging and they are addicted to bad habits like smoking. Few of them are going to government schools.”

Vivek added that they were also reaching out to the children with facilities, including computers, home tutors among others, as some of the children do not even go to school.

Some of them do not have books to study and Valets of India had made a decision to provide them with stationery items, Vivek said.

Srishti Verma, an ex-student of St Joseph’s Convent High School and enrolled to Baldwin Academy now, said: “Sunday was the second visit of ours. We distributed food items among the children so that they can get attracted towards us that will enable us to convince them to study. We will also convince their parents, too, to send them to schools. We aim at teaching them on every alternate day.”

Surabhi Singh, who did her schooling from Holy Cross, Darbhanga, and is in Patna to prepare for competitive examinations, said: “We will ensure that our organisation gets more members and even if we move out of Bihar, then other members who are junior to us see that the organisation continues and the slum children keep on studying.”

At present, Valets of Indiahas seven executive members and around 15 students have joined as supporting ones.

Valets of India will also have a website of its own and is already on a popular social networking site.