Card Project sends 4 Kids to School!
Everybody needs that small act of kindness, be it in receiving or in committing. And through Find A Way, we help you spread the goodwill.
The Card Project, launched in January, has been a spectacular success and the Find A Way team, by working undeniably hard, has finally managed to achieve one of its initial goals -- to see the profits from the card go directly to charity and brighten the lives of underprivileged children by sponsoring their education in a recognized school.
The team handed over the card profits to Child and Women Care Society (CWCS) on Wednesday, 2 April 2014, and this money, gathered from the sale of the FAW card, will be enough to fund the education four children for one year each.
They say good deeds never go unrewarded. And our reward has been the happy faces of the kids who we helped sponsor through CWCS, our partner NGO. All of this has been possible because of the people who believed in the Card Project enough to buy one of our cards, not to mention the people who believe in Find A Way itself, and the efforts of our vounteers and campus ambassadors.
Though the card has started to show results, our work has just begun. We still have many more kids to sponsor, to help them get a chance at making it big, to give their lives that small nudge in the right direction.
Team members from Find A Way visited the Azad-Hind Public School in Badarpur where the kids study. They met the four kids whose lives the Eat and Educate campaign has helped to make better, and spent time with the other children as well.
They found that almost all the children have uniforms and are quite happy to be in school. They are diligent students and work hard to get good marks. The authorities are quite concerned that the children should get the best education possible, and have done as much as they can for the interests of the children. Along with the studying, the children also have a good time when their school takes them on picnics. They are a chirpy bunch, and because they are able to study, they are now hopeful for a future where they can become whoever they want to become, accomplish whatever they want to do.
Anurag Kumar is a bright ten-year old studying in Std II. He comes from a family of five, with two brothers and a sister. His mother doesn't work, though his father is a daily wage construction worker. Ask him what his favorite subject is, and he happily announces, "English. I want to learn English." He says he wants to become a policeman when he grows up, and he knows how important school is; that's why he attends school all the six days that it is functional.
Abhishek Kumar loves Maths. He is in Std. I, and all of eight years old. Coming from a similar family as Anurag, he shares a common sentiment -- school is a place for learning and having fun, and meeting up with friends. He wants to become a doctor one day, and hopes he can make lots of money. When asked why he wasn't wearing a uniform, he replied quite seriously, "Baba will get his salary by 7th April. I'll buy a new uniform then. The one I have right now doesn't fit me anymore. Maybe my brothers can wear it."
Nishant is another ten year old, and is Anurag's classmate. His father works as a whitewasher and painter, while his mother has a stall where she sews clothes. He is a shy boy, who likes playing gilli-danda and marbles.
Salma is a pretty girl with mischievous little grin . She is also in Std. I, same as Abhishek, and also wants to become a doctor. She has an elder sister and a younger brother, who is quite naughty. Her father is an electrician and her mother weaves cloth for a living. She says her favourite colour is red, and that she would like the walls of the classroom to be painted red.
