Know The Inspiring Story Of Pinki Haryan: From Begging To Healing (image-twitter/Srashti0822)

Pinki Haryan, along with her parents, begged on the streets and scavenged for food in garbage dumps during her childhood. However, things have changed a lot for the young aspirant, and she is now burning down candles to pass the exam which would make her eligible to practice medicine in India.

The amazing twist to her life came in, when Lobsang Jamyang, a Tibetan refugee monk and the director of Dharamshala-based charitable trust, spotted Haryan begging in 2004. During his visit to a slum cluster at Charan Khud, the monk identified the girl.

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He convinced the family to let her pursue education.

Haryan got admission into the Dayanand Public School at Dharamshala and was among the first batch of students at a hostel for destitute children set up by the charitable trust in 2004.

Though she had missed her parents after joining the school, the realization hit her that this would be the only way out of poverty and it became visible in her results as well.

She passed the senior secondary examination and also cleared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate). However, due to the financial crisis, the doors of private medical colleges remained shut for the young aspirant. Reluctant to take any step backward, with the help of the Tong-Len Charitable Trust in the United Kingdom, she decided to join the prestigious medical college in China in 2018 and has returned to Dharamshala recently after completing her MBBS course. And after the long wait of 20 years, she has now qualified as a doctor.

Sharing a childhood memory, Haryan recalled that during her school admission interview as a four-year-old, she expressed her ambition to become a doctor.

“At that point in time, I had no idea what work a doctor does, but I always wanted to help my community,” said Haryan who is preparing for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) to become eligible to practice medicine in India.
Drawing inspiration from their sister, her brother and sister have now joined a school.

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Meanwhile, Jamyang said he had set up the trust in the hope of imparting basic education to destitute children so that they can lead a respectful life.