Abinaya is a 7th grade student from Pachapalayam, a village in the Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu. She attends a HoPE Learning Center with her brother and four sisters. While many kids her age would rather play in the streets, Abinaya likes going to school and attending HoPE Learning Center afterwards. She says that both are great places to meet new people where her hunger for learning can be satiated. Her HoPE Center teacher affirms \”Abinaya is an incredibly bright young lady with an extraordinary passion for learning new things.\” Coimbatore has been sustained by textile manufacturing and cotton production