Hi Karthik and others, Thank you for the response and interest.
Today Sai garu (Nokia's site manager)spoke with me. He explained me various scenarios that can happen and their past experiences. Also he emphasized the necessity of doing lot of ground work. What he opines is, if at all we take up a case, we should take full responsibility and we should talk to the family: 1. Do they do her marriage or do they allow her to study and get employment Also we should be able to guide her, groom her, motivate her etc., It is just like taking a responsibility as such that we do it for our own family member, a sort of adoption. He has given few examples: 1. A guy who cleared IAS exam 2. A girl who got many offer letters for a pay of more than 50k and who is opting for US University Scholorship for MS program If we wish to commit, we should talk to the girl/any student in detail, analyse her and then if we feel she is worth of all our efforts, then we should groom her. He has also given the examples of a boy who ran away from the hostel and also a girl who developed all sorts of bad habits. So it is not so easy. After listening to him, I felt very discouraged. So I think we need very good discussion on it and we need people who can commit and also be good enough in guiding and counselling. We all should do it collectively. It is not the case of medical help or running medical camps or just providing financial support. Ofcourse Sai garu and other members of Satya Sai Seva Dal helps us, but we should be very committed and dedicated. Lot need to be done here. Are we fit enough to take up? Please advice. Personally I am doing very serious introspection and to be frank a bit negative of our competency in dealing with/working for this cause. Thank you. --- In [email protected], Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a good cause. I want to contribute to this girl's education. Please let me know how I can. > > Cheers! > Karthik > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Lakshmi Prasanthi Uppalapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:30:31 PM > Subject: Re: [tomakeadifference] <Important: New Case> Need for educational support. > > > Thank you Raghu and Suresh. > > Suresh from We Will Help You group came forward to help her initial fee requirement. > > ------------------------------ > From: We Will Help You > "Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I propose that we go ahead with the idea of sponsoring this girl's education. We can formalize how to raise the funds a little later. I am willing to put up the initial fee requirement so that she does not miss the opportunity to start on time. > Education will always have my support. > Suresh A > > -------------------------------- > > I will give the contact details of the girl to 3 of you off-line later. If you want to ring to her and talk, you can. > > Thank you. > > On 6/14/06, suresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prasanthi and team, > > Since the college has already begun, lets go ahead with sponsoring her. In the meanwhile we can work on finding a third party to sponsor her education. > > My initial contribution to this is $55. This money was raised from a penny drive. My friends who participated in this , had collected pennies worth $55 and even they would be happy to know, what they thought was inconsequential , has turned out to be a significant amount. > > anyways, thats my 2 cents :-) > > > ulprasanthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > Good Morning/Evening. > > This is the case of a girl that I mentioned in few of my previous mails. > > Name: Swati > > Family Details: > Father: An Agricultural worker who earns Rs. 70 per day > Mother: Works in a Seed company who earns Rs. 45 per day > She is the youngest among the four children. All her elder sisters got > married. She is interested to pursue her education. > > Address: Flat No: 37, B. N. Reddy Nagar, Vanasthalipuram Mandal. 2 kms > from Vanasthalipuram it seems. > > Marks she secured in SSC: 507 > > She told me that there is a college by name Naveen College near by her > house and she doesn't mind studying in any other college that we > sponsor for her. She is ready to even join in a hostel. (We don't know > her parents' opinion. This is just her personal interest). > > I requested her to go to Naveena College tomorrow and get the fee > details and the contact details of the principal. > > Meanwhile we should try to know about any college. One of my > relatives' husband works in Narayana College. I will find out if there > is any scope of concession and is it possible to talk to the > management here. or else we can try in any other college that we know. > > Friends, what do you feel about this case? Shall we take up and > sponsor this girl or shall we forward this case to non-members who are > friends and whom we feel would be interested to support this girl. > > Please respond quickly as Intermediate classes are started already. > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still i can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do . ( Helen Keller ) > Suresh > > http://bhookh.com > http://aidindia.org > http://www.giftofvision.org > http://foodindia.org.in/ > http://www.workingchild.org/ > http://studentsforbhopal.org/ > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > with regards, > PRASANTHI. > ---- > When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. >
