 My name is Chandran Singh and I'm from New Delhi, India. I live in a slum called Jeevan Nagar and it's in the south part of Delhi. This slum was established like 40 years ago. The place consists of about 3000 slum dwellers and it's like a very congested area, you can say that. In this area, there is hardly like 10 to 11 students who are actually able to make it to colleges. So I am one of them. So these are my books that I left here for other children to read. In spite of all challenges, I mean the challenges like electricity, water or the problem with spaces, we all somehow manage and we do our work. When I was 11 years old, I realized that I like mathematics problems. Solving problems in different ways. And yes, from there I realized this is what I like. Dr. Kiran is director and founder of a charity called Asha in Delhi. Dr. Kiran has played a really important part of my life. She made me understand the value of the grades. She kind of gave assurance that there is no way that university will not accept me. But again, college fees were something that is equal to like my father's one-man salary. But somehow Dr. Kiran understood it and then she told me that she will pay my college fees. So this is where it really started and then I went to college. My father is my biggest inspiration because in spite of facing all these challenges, he never gave up and I know that he has less but he never said no to my needs and he worked hard. He proudly tells our relatives and people in my village that my son has completed a master's degree. And my son will visit Australia. We are going to Hancock Library, one of my favorite places. So earlier this year I got an opportunity to come here at ANU to study mathematics for more than three months. And I am trying to find my special book, where it is, where it is. This is one of the algebraic topology books and this is my area of interest. I want to do my research in this area. And this is a particular branch of mathematics study species by putting algebraic variants on them. So this particular section is full of algebraic topology books. Earlier when I was in India, I always used to think that I am somewhere lower than other people. So in India we have these lot of hierarchical things. So after coming here, I was equally treated by people as they treat others and no discrimination. So it's a great gift I would say. Education is the only way to go out of poverty or fight poverty. And there are many students like me, I know that. And education is the only weapon and education is the only key to fight from these challenges.