Transforming India

 

When I take a trip down the memory lane, I feel oh so nostalgic especially when I think of my school days….

I did my schooling from a Govt School which is located in a small village in Andhra Pradesh, South India. My school, like most other schools there, has children who cannot even afford to buy books and stationery! Wearing proper uniforms to school is like a far-fetched dream for them!

So many bright students in our country are not able to continue their further studies owing to the poor economic conditions. Hence so much talent is going unharnessed and not utilized in especially the villages in our country. If they only could afford to get a little more education, am sure we’d have scores of Abdul Kalams and Narayana Murthys!!

Now that I am working, I thought of doing some thing to help and encourage students from my school in the village.

As a small gesture, I gave away a cash prize of Rs.1000/- and a momento each for two top rankers of class 10 for the 2007 batch of students, on the occassion of Independence Day. I know it is not a big thing, but that surely helped encourage the students in more than one way.. Like

~ Creating a sportive spirit among the students to study hard and get the top ranks
~ Help them buy books(at least) for the next academic year
~ Develop self confidence in the students

When I spoke to the teachers of the school, they really liked the idea and asked me to extend this scheme to all classes if I could with a small amount (Rs.100/- or 200/-).I announced the same to all the students and am looking forward to see whether it creates any impact on the students by the next Independence Day, when we would be distribute the prizes in front of all the students and their parents.

Am sure you must all be wondering why I am beginning my blog with such an article..The reason is…when I shared this idea with one of my friends- Chandra Reddy, he was really impressed and want to implement something similar in his village school immediately.

When we both can do this, we thought, if we only shared this idea with others, then all such like-minded people can do this through a kind of forum, thus extending this help on a wider scale!

We all know…”Little drops of water make an ocean”. So, if anyone of you like this idea, please join us, so that we all together can create a bigger impact by extending our helping hand to more number of students.

You could either do such things on your own or through your parents/siblings.
Please do share ur ideas, views and comments.

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