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.

Rohan Kumar, an eight year old boy, is the son of Inder and Tijiya, both illiterate labourers who live in a ghetto in the outskirts of Patna, a city in India. This ghetto is inhabited only by members of the musahar community. Rohan has one brother and three sisters. Rohan§s parents have a meagre income and live well below the poverty line.

Rohan did not have access to education and without the intervention of Shoshit Seva Sangh he would likely have remained in this ghetto like his parents. Rohan joined the school in 2009 in the pre-school class and will now go to the second grade. He is a keen student and now that he has access to quality education, life for him is full of hope and prospects of transformational change not only for himself but also for his near and dear ones.

During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Rohan’s tuition was sponsored for a full year.

In the final exams of grade one, Rohan averaged 91.6%,  scoring 91/100 in English, 86/100 in Hindi and 93/100 in Maths, 94/100 in Science and 92/100 in Social Studies. Rohan has successfully passed his grade one examinations and will now go to the second grade.

Your donation, Greg, will enable Shoshit Seva Sangh to provide clothing and comprehensive medical care to Rohan for an entire year.

Thanks to your support, Rohan can now look forward to a bright future.

Vikash is 9 years old and both his parents, Mahendra and Rita, are illiterate landless laborers living about 50 kilometers from Patna, India. Vikash has one brother and one sister, both younger than him.

Vikash joined the Shoshit Samadhan Kendra school, a fully free English medium residential school in 2009, in pre-school class, and has shown great promise in his studies.

In the final exams in the pre-school class he averaged 95%, scoring 97% in English, 89% in Hindi and 96% in Maths. Vikash is now in class II and at this tender age he has shown a remarkable disposition for studies. Though he has a long road to travel, he certainly deserves the opportunity that he has been given to excel in life.

Thank you, Praveen (x2), Lowry, Jerame, Jeffrey, Dwayne and Terese, Peter and Kim, Butson, Sumit (x3), and Bhargavan, for coming together to support his tuition for a whole year!

Thank  you, Vinayak, for donating clothing and an entire year of comprehensive medical care to Vikash.

Shekhar is nine years old and is one of four children. His father is a casual agricultural laborer and his mother is a house wife. He has two brothers and one sister who is 3 years old. The family lives well below the poverty line in a ghetto in the outskirts of Patna and the father cannot afford to send the children to school. For Shekhar joining the fully free English medium residential school is like a dream come true.
Shekhar has been attending school for two years now and his performance has indeed been promising.
During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Shekhar’s tuition and clothing and medical care was sponsored for a full year.
Last year in Grade one, Shekhar secured an overall 85.6% scoring, 89/100 in English, 77/100 in Hindi, 83/100 in Maths, 88/100 in Science and 88/100 in Social Studies.
Your generosity in providing him an entire year of tuition, S K S, will enable Shekhar to continue his studies in the second grade.
Thank you, Nishant, for providing one year of clothing and comprehensive medical care to Shekhar.
With your support, a bright future is now definitely within his grasp.
 

Ramjanam is nine years old and comes from Silpalpur on the outskirts of Patna, India. His parents are illiterate landless labourers. He has three sisters and one brother. His parents find it difficult to support the large family as they live well below the poverty line. Ramjanam joined the school run by Shoshit Seva Sangh in 2007 and he is now in grade 4. He is working hard, and your donations allow Ramjanam to continue his education for another year!

During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Ramjanam’s tuition and clothing and medical care was sponsored for a full year. Ramjanam did his supporters proud by scoring an overall 55.6%, with 54/100 in English, 61/100 in Hindi, 57/100 in Maths, 60/100 in Science and 64/100 in Social Studies.

Your donations of year of tuition, Lucus, will enable Ramjanam to continue his studies in grade four.

Your donation, Praveen, will ensure that Ramjaman is adequately clothed, and has comprehensive medical care for the year.

Thanks to your support, Lucus and Praveen, a bright future now beckons Ramjanam.

Nine year old Anand Mohan belongs to the Musahar community and lives in a village on the outskirts of Patna. He lost both his parents and is being brought up by his uncle and aunt. He has two brothers and two sisters. His uncle is a casual laborer, and has children of his own, so it is virtually impossible for him to financially cater to five additional children. Anand would have been forced to start working to supplement the family income, and for him, getting admission into the school run by Shoshit Seva Sangh is like a dream coming true.

Anand Mohan is a conscientious student and has performed reasonably in the two years that he has been in the fully free English medium residential school run by Shoshit Seva Sangh. During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Anand’s tuition and clothing and medical care was sponsored for a full year.

Last year in Grade one, Anand secured an overall 88.8% scoring, 91/100 in English, 82/100 in Hindi, 94/100 in Maths, 88/100 in Science and 91/100 in Social Studies.

Your donations of six months of tuition each, George and S K S, will enable Anand to continue his studies in grade two.

Your donation of a year of comprehensive clothing and medical care, Christina, will take care of Anand’s basic needs for the entire year.

Thank you, for enabling Anand Mohan, to continue attending school.

Ramesh Manjhi belongs to a remote village in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. He joined the school in 2007. The parents of Ramesh are both landless day laborers. With their four children, they have only known extreme poverty and hopelessness. Their village is prone to flooding every year adding to their misery. Ramesh who joined the school in 2007 has shown determination to succeed. His progress in academics is indeed commendable.

During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Ramesh’s tuition and clothing and medical care was sponsored for a full year.

Last year in Grade three, Ramesh secured an overall 78.8%  scoring, 66/100 in English, 71/100 in Hindi, 78/100 in Maths, 85/100 in Science and 92/100 in Social Studies.

The donation of a year of tuition and comprehensive clothing and care for a year from the Bellevue Rotary will ensure that Ramesh continues his studies in grade four.

A bright future now beckons Ramesh, made possible by your generous donations.

Sixteen year old Manoj Kumar lost both his parents a few years back. Since then, he and his sister, Nirmal Kumari, have been brought up by their grandfather who is a landless laborer. Because of his old age, their grandfather struggles to find work, and the family barely has enough food to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Since their grandfather is very old, Manoj has always been conscious of the fact that looking after his sister would eventually be his responsibility and he despaired of ever finding a job that would ensure a sustainable livelihood.

The future looked very bleak for Manoj  till he got admission into the free English medium school run by Shoshit Seva Sangh. Manoj is now in Grade 5, and his grades have been consistently high in the four years that he has been in the school. He does particularly well in Maths and Science, and hopes to become an engineer. Even a few years back, nobody in his extended family (or even his community) would have even dared dream of engineering as a viable career option, but Manoj is confident of making his dream a reality.

During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Manoj’s tuition and clothing and care was sponsored for a full year.

Last year in Grade five, Manoj secured an overall 69.2% scoring, 58/100 in English, 66/100 in Hindi, 85/100 in Maths, 76/100 in Science and 61/100 in Social Studies.

Your donation, Bellevue Rotary, of a year of tuition and comprehensive clothing and care for an entire year will enable Manoj to continue his studies in grade six.

Thanks to your support, Manoj can now concentrate on his studies without worrying about anything else.

Dear Kandace, Craig, David, Lee, Sarah, Pradeep, Peter, Michael, Kate, Bill, Bill, and Greg,

Ajay is 9 years old and comes from a Musahar Ghetto in a village called Khhori in Bihar, India. Both his parents are illiterate and landless agricultural laborers. They get seasonal employment and live much below the poverty line. His prematurely aging parents can hardly afford a decent life for themselves and their six children. Ajay was admitted to the free English medium school run by Shoshit Seva Sangh in December 2007.

During the last academic year, thanks to the previous support from donors on SeeYourImpact, Ajay’s tuition and clothing and care was sponsored for a full year.

Last year, in grade 2, Ajay secured an over all 57.6%, and scored 64/100 in English, 59/100 in Hindi, 60/100 in Maths, 66/100 in Science and 71/100 in Social Studies, in the final annual examinations. He has now been promoted to grade 3. Though the formal academic year in India begins only in June, Shoshit Seva Sangh keeps the school running throughout the year, because the boys do not have a congenial family environment to go back to for the holidays.

Your donation of a month of tuition each, Kandace (x 2), Craig, David, Lee, Sarah, Pradeep, Peter, Michael, Kate and Bill (x 2), will enable Ajay to continue his studies in grade 3.

Your donation, Greg, will enable SSS to provide sufficient clothing and comprehensive medical care to Ajay for an entire year.

Thank you all for coming together and supporting Ajay’s education for an entire year. It takes him one step closer to his goal of moving himself, his family and ultimately his community out of acute poverty.