Saturday 4 June 2016

#Adopt a #LEAD #Student

The first and fore most requirement for inclusive and sustainable growth is access to high quality higher education for all. But unfortunately, the field of opportunities for acquiring higher education is no more a level field in our country. Those who are on the lower side get sucked into a whirlpool of ever deepening misery and misfortune, making the field even more uneven.

We, the LEADers, dream of putting our humble effort in trying to level the field for those who have through their circumstances - social, economic, cultural, family or whatever - been put in a disadvantaged position thus being sucked into the vortex of misery and misfortune, generation after generation. No, doubt the government as well as many NGOs are doing a great job by providing many such students financial help through, different scholarships, soft-loans, and other such helps.

But we look on the issue from a different angle.

What is needed for any such child is not finance alone, but a full and complete adoption, mentor-ship and emotional and sentimental support till he or she becomes a grown up and strong individual. We wish to make an humble beginning from our immediate neighbourhood in and around Lucknow. We want to experiment the idea on a small pilot project basis adopting one or two post tenth student(s) and grooming the fellow to a level where he/she becomes a well-educated and self sustained individual. We request you to come forward and adopt at least one such student. We of course want the mentor to involve him/her into an unwritten, informal and sentimental covenant with the student, so supported,  that once self sufficient he/she will support at least two such students in  turn, thus,  producing a breed of LEADers in the distant future.

If you are convinced, are an Indian national, have a bank account and Income Tax PAN in India, and most important of all do not discriminate between humans on any basis, and want to adopt a LEAD Student, kindly contact us.

Our role will be limited to a facilitator and catalyst. We, will find one such student for you, give his or her family background to you and may be, put the two of you across a table or WhatsApp or Skype connection for an interview.

If you adopt the student you will have to pledge that you will groom him or her to the final point in his or her career like a parent, not like a donor; that you will know him or her personally and  not just as another number in the statistics of students helped or supported by you or by us.

You will have to pay the expenses directly to the educational institution for fee and  to the student for other expenses, like purchase of books, tools and stationary and conveyance expenses etc.

Contact LEAD Trust.

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