“I could not understand what the tourist said”: How Harekala Hajabba turned one painful moment into a mission to build a school for children in his village

For most people, a language barrier is a small inconvenience. For Harekala Hajabba, one such moment became the beginning of a mission that would change the lives of hundreds of children. Hajabba was selling oranges near a bus stand in Mangaluru when a foreign tourist approached him and asked him something in English.