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Emerging Heroes defetaing Poverty, Reyazuddin

THE REAL HERO

This is not the story but the real fact of life. Emerging heroes defeating poverty
Reyazuddin is the real hero of the poverty ridden society who is defeating poverty by his determination and zeal for education, Those who say poverty is the obstacles in the path of education must be 100% Correct, But the hard work sincerity and courage to overcome the situation what ever may be can change the against situation in your favour by the hard work and not to give himself to the mercy of the Circumstances.

Reyazuddin is 15 year boy, who is the adopted child in the sponsorship project of Samaritan Help Mission, Reayzuddin father was Rickshaw puller another two younger brother who does not attend school, only earning member of the family is suffering with T.B and cannot bring bread for his family

Reazudin was admitted in a government school in class III after we find him reading a book on the side of a lane in the tikipara bustee. He comes for tuition in the after school evening project of SHM.

From that time Reayuddin show a very nice progress and always have a dream to complete class Xth, like other Children, He had a big dream too to get a govt Job, but the.
The situation changes all of a sudden. His father was declared a T.B patient. And he stops plying Rickshaw. The family started to starve sometime they get breakfast in the morning and then no food in after noon. Mother started asking as small loan of Rs.100/- or more to provide for her children and husband, she has hope that her husband will be alright and she will repay the loan. But as the day passed, her husband condition deterioted, and in the end no one helped with her loan. And started asking to get back the loan. Humilation started and the family was in a very bad condition.

Reayzuddin at last decided that He has to work and will work so that his small brothers, mother and father could survive. He took hold the handle of his father Rickshaw lying without repair, and one morning he was on the street of tikiapara, it seems his dream of getting a govt job was shattered, But Reayzuddin did not gave, He continued his school. and never missed his evening class at SHM. I was unaware of the fact and one day I was standing near the Rickshaw stand to catch a Rickshaw and just one Rickshaw passing by, the Rickshaw did not stop and it passé by , For a moment I was shocked to see the Rickshaw puller it was non-other than Reayzuddin,. I called him from behind and he did not stopped, I ran behind him and at last when I came in front of the Rickshaw, I was shocked to see the boy plying Rickshaw and he was Reyazuddin. I told him to get down from the Rickshaw and told him to come to the office, there he narrated the whole fact, but his eyes was not full tears but he was happy that he was serving his poor father and mother and now her mother is not asking any body for loan to get food,

I told him that I am proud of you, but do not comprise with the circumstance defeat the situation. As SHM was partly supporting his education decided to support him full for his education and also started giving his family Rs.500/- pm. So that the burden could be lessen, and they can survive and he can freely continue his education.

Reayzuddin will surely complete his education because the blessings of his poor parents his with him, and we all are proud of him, Just liked to share this with all of you.

Regards,
Mamoon

Samaritan Projects

PROJECT INFORMATION
Brief Introduction of various Samaritan Help Mission Projects in
Tikiapara Howrah West Bengal

1)Vocational training Project for poor girls and widows
2)Illiteracy Elimination Program of formal School from Class I-IV for the underprivileged Children
3)Samaritan Kindergarten
4)Computer Literacy Program for the poor meritorious girls who do not have access computer education.
5)Sponsorship Program for orphan Boys and girls for education from Primary level till class X and in coming future for further studies.
6)Adopt a family Program
7)Samaritan Girls school (An English Medium School for the poor Girls of all Communities)
8)Awareness Program (Family Planning among the parents/Immunization of Pulse Polio/Propagation for importance of Vegetarianism among the children and parents.

Samaritan Girls school
(An English Medium School for the poor Girls of all Communities)
A dream Come true
The 26th May-2008 is one of the remarkable day for SHM. By the help and support from the well wishers and friends, SHM have succeeded in establishing an English medium school for the poor girls of all communities. Those poor parents who never dreamt of sending their child to an English Medium School are proud and they are happier to find wonderful progress among the Children. This is the very proud moment for SHM as well the poor inhabitants of Tikiapara that for the first time these children will be wearing dress, shoes and will be sitting on the benches and desk.

Mamoon Akhtar

Hi Everyone,

Want to see a video about Samaritan Help Mission on NDTV news? Click on this LINK (http://www.youtube.com/samaritanhelpmission). (It's not in English, but still a great opportunity to see video footage of the children and teachers at our schools.)

Best,
Mamoon

Visit from Jai Dee Children's Fund

In February, Shawn Phelps, the executive director of Jai Dee (Good Heart) Children's Fund, based in Toronto, Canada, came to visit us for two weeks to help create fundraising ideas for SHM's schools and also to donate some basic resources, in the amount of around US$1,000 (Rs. 42,500). With this money she purchased many books, pencils, mats, chairs, tube lights and all-important emergency lights, which are necessary since the power keeps going out in our district and it gets dark here early. She was very impressed after meeting our children (over 400 of them!) and checking out our formal teaching programs, vocational training projects, computer literacy program and kindergarten. She was especially impressed with the dedication and hard work of the volunteers. I was also impressed with Shawn and her dedication to her work, and also her great love of children. During her time here, she taught me many things, such as how to create this blog you're reading right now!

While Shawn was visiting, she met an international artist and photographer from Mexico, Jose T. Moguel, at a local cafe and invited him to visit Samaritan Help Mission. Consequently, Jose spent three days visiting our projects and became very inspired by what he saw. He took many photographs, which may become part of his future exibitions and raise awareness of our beautiful children here who just need a little help. He also has some friends who make documentaries, so maybe in the future they will come and tell our story to the world!

You can see myself, Shawn and Jose in the Picture. I am very grateful that Shawn & Jose have now become ambassadors of SHM overseas, spreading awarness of our work. I am especially grateful to Shawn for all of her help, and of course for the financial support from Jai Dee Children's Fund.

While Shawn was here, I took her to visit our newest project, Bankra (see photo), which is 6 km away from Tikiapara, where our main projects are located. She was moved and encouraged by my plan to start a school for the children there. Currently there is no school there, and the children all work making various types of paper binding used at the centre of thread rolls/spindles. Their washing water is full of sewage. Without a school there is a little hope for a decent future. This is why I'm committed to building a school in this area and helping to create some hope and a better future for these children.

Shawn left us on Feb 16 to return to Toronto, with a promise to visit again. Thanks Shawn, the children and teachers of SHM all look forward to your next visit!

National Integeration Award

You will be happy to read that I was given the National Integration Award on 26th Jan-2007 at Ahmednagar (Maharastra). This award was for promoting communal harmony among youths of all religions. I try to teach them to dedicate their time and work to the progress of India by building a bridge of universal brotherhood and tolerance, and by working for the most neglected people in society on the basis of HELP PEOPLE ON NEED NOT ON CREED.

At the awards ceremony I delivered a speech to an audience of youth about the importance of caring for their own parents, because I believe that unless we love our own mother, we cannot love our motherland. I believe that the trophies gather dust and the sound of the clap fades away, but the real award is the feeling that comes from serving humanity from the lap of the mother till the death bed.