Raju can dream of future different from his past

Nine year old Raju Kumar, comes from the socially shunned, squalid, musahar ghetto (rat-eating community) in the village of Khajuri in Patna district. Centuries of deprivation, apartheid have driven the ‘untouchable’ Musahar community to live in sub-human conditions confined to performing wretched and unhygienic tasks such as cleaning of human waste.

Both Raju’s parents are landless laborers living much below the poverty line. They don’t even have a straw roof hut which is the normal habitat of a musahar family. His family lives in a make shift hut in the fields in the fields they work in, provided by the landlord. Their living conditions are extremely difficult. Raju Kumar is the eldest son in the family, and joined Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, the free English medium school run by the Shoshit Seva Sangh in January 2010. He can look forward to a bright future provided he works hard at his studies and fully utilizes the facilities now available to him.

Since joining SSK in January 2010, Raju Kumar has received clothes and books and is adjusting well in the school hostel. His teacher thinks highly of Raju and is quite confident that Raju will do well in studies. His first year of school was made possible due to the kindness of donors who donated through SeeYourImpact.

Your generous donation, Bellevue Rotary Foundation, will ensure that Raju gets to attend another year of school at Shoshit Seva Kendra and continue to excel in studies. Your generosity has changed despair into hope and hope shall lead to achievement.

Your generous donations, Praveen and Tom, will ensure that Raju has clothing and comprehensive medical care for an entire year. Thank you.

Thank you, Bellevue Rotary Foundation, for enabling Raju to have a future different from his past.