Searching for Solutions.
A boy from middle class family did his graduation and post graduation diploma in management. In the process parents spent almost half a million Indian Rupees in hopes of bright future for their son. After getting degree it took almost 6 months for boy to secure a job which pays Rs 10,000.00 per month. This pay is not only fairly low looking at current trends in India, it is also lower than what a fresh graduate with good grades would get. This is not decent rate if compared with expenses of almost half a million India Rupees spent on education. Both the boy and parents are perplexed by situation. What steps could have landed the boy in a better situation?
A girl, while doing her schooling in a “madrassa” in W. Bengal, won a science innovation competition and obtained the prize from President of India for inventing a weighing scale for blinds, could not enroll in science stream for higher studies because of poverty and lack of financial support from any corner of community……TCC. How such a bright student can go neglected?
Abdul Hafez is twelve years old who had weak eyesight and could not see well. He would sit in front of the blackboard to see what was written on the blackboard. His mother, a widow could not afford an eye examination. SEED (Support for Education and Economic Development) sent him for an eye examination and provided him with glasses. Now Abdul Hafeez is happy because he can see like any other normal child…….Pledge Card SEED. How many more kids are still helpless?
A team of young educated people started a higher secondary school in India, with hope of helping bright students from community to get better education. Their complaint, most of the students even bright avoid science stream because of higher cost. They are doing their best to help the students in choosing science stream by subsidizing tuition but financial constraints limit them in extending help to more students. What can be done?
Out of population of 150 million Muslims in India shockingly only 3.1% have Bachelor’s degree and only 1.3% have Master’s degree. It is not because of lack of desire for education among the Indian Muslims; it is because of lack of affordability due to poverty, accessibility of the schools, and poor infrastructure at the schools, teacher absenteeism, and high dropout rate. 25% of Indian Muslim children have never seen a school……..AFMI
In India about 80% of Muslim Families enroll their children into KG but 70% of them drop out by the time they reach 10th grade and only 2% managed to enroll in college….. IMRC 2010 annual report.
All facts mentioned above are pertaining to India, but situation elsewhere is no different. We all know gazillion numbers of such cases exist all around in our community. Is this not a high time we ask ourselves what can we do to overcome this situation? How can we help such unprivileged kids? What can we do for better future of our coming generations?
