By Jignesh Christi | Project Leader
Dear donors,
Regards from Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch (GVT)
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will follow behind you!
- Walt Whitman
In this report, GVT will introduce three students who have applied for their higher education from university, without a penny in their hand. All the three students are friends from their childhood. All of them are from poor background. The family is poor, but also very much against for the girl child higher education. Among these three friends two of them are girls Rukaiya and Munira (Name Changed) and Sameer (Name Changed). Rukaiya’s financial condition is very poor, her father is working as daily wages laborer in the field, and same as her friend Munira is also poor. Her mother and father work in one of the field of the village. Sameer’s financial condition is good but his father is not willing to study further as now Sameer has to run their fruits cart in the nearby city.
After completing their 12th, their parents have not permitted them for higher studies, and they have joined in their routine lives. But still they have the spirit of studying further was there, but they were not able to share with their parents. They have decided to get admission in B.com, but they do not have a single rupee to pay at the college.
During this period, they met one of the beneficiaries, and he shared about GVT that they help, poor children for their higher studies. On the same day Sameer come to GVT office and shared their stories with our officer. Rukaiya, Munira and Sameer, get help form GVT and have taken admission for their B.com studies. Our officer went to meet to their parents, and shared their wishes for higher studies, somehow they have got convinced. Rukaiya and Munira are not allowed for extra classes or for tuitions, to stay longer time in the college. Which they have happily agreed for higher studies. But they have allowed for their education.
The stories of poor family, sometime it does not mark any impact on our feelings, but what they feel is a matter to think. Still there are many Munira, many Rukaiya, and many Sameer, who might shout for our help, or might not. But let us try to hear their shout and convert them in a beautiful song.
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