The cycle of illiteracy will continue if proper steps are not taken in time to reduce drop-out rates, increase enrolment and encourage girl child education and slum children’s education. Our BEL road Centre is seeing encouraging responses to the Sackhumvit way of learning. The students have an opportunity to improve all aspects of their curriculum. However, in places where clean drinking water and two square meals are a struggle, slum children’s education, health and other contributing factors for development will always take a back seat in the form of poor attendance