A current article from UNICEF
says that India is now a Polio-Free nation, which is a proud conquest. A few
years ago, there was a Hope that someday we shall witness one such morning. And
because of the optimistic attempts that followed, today, we have achieved it. Awareness
played a major role to reach this milestone. Had it not been put on big
banners, hoardings and celebrities appearing in Television and Radio ads to
promote the Polio Camps, it would have been really difficult to reach out to the
remotest of the rural areas and tell them how important those two drops are.
But, there are many more
milestones to be achieved before we rest. Do we not want to see poverty
vanished from our country?
And, once again, joining hands
together and not letting down the high hopes in our minds, we can make that happen
as well.
One valuable weapon to fight
poverty is Education. Education is as important as those two drops of Polio are
to a child. It is only because of the lack of education that one illiterate man
doesn’t send his children to school, because he finds it to be the reason
behind his children’s illness. Those children will remain uneducated. Those
children will never have a better life; they will never know how far their
hands can reach; they will accept their depravity; they will remain in the
bubble of delusion and they will never know that the school was never the actual
reason behind their illness.
Even after years of Independence,
many rural areas are still in need of a proper school building. Unless, the
children, who are the future of our country, are educated, how can we dream of
a brighter tomorrow?
Many children are not allowed to
enter the school just because of the lower and higher class differences. How is
that justified? Everyone has the right to be educated. And even if the
government is failing to provide us with the minimum necessary needs, let us
not waste time in blaming them or waiting for them to move a stone.
Instead, let us join hands to
help some of the visionaries who have already taken the first step in doing so.
I am supporting Mr. Suresh, who is an
educator and runs a school named Jnana jyothi Public School, located in a
village called Devanhalli Taluka, Karnataka, with 250 children and 10 teachers.
He has asked an organization called Milaap to extend a loan for the repair work
and renovation of the school as they are short of some funds.
So, if you want to be a part of
this Hope Project, you can click on this link to know more about this project
and lend some help to them.
This is a small step we can all
take to help a few children get proper education. And one of them might
discover the cure to one of the lethal diseases or invent the next big thing or
be another great visionary.
Trust me, doing this will give you real happiness.
Thank You
Milaap and IndiBlogger
for this good cause.
Milaap and IndiBlogger
for this good cause.
-Ashish
Yes ! am with you ashi :)
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