Umang
Foundation enters the grand finale week of its flagship project – Promote
Education
Umang Foundation, a Mulund based NGO has always
believed education to be of paramount importance for the progress of the
country. Every year Team Umang identifies schools with financially weak
students and facilitates the supply of the stationery material needed for an
academic year by them. The flagship project under which this is carried is
called “Promote Education” which was launched in 2008. With its stanch belief
and absolute commitment, Team Umang has been successful in reducing the volume
of the dropouts of the students from these schools. Mr. Ashish Goyal, Founder
and Managing Trustee of Umang Foundation proudly claims that “We are very happy
that all our hard work has been translated into results. As Team Umang has
progressively increased the number of beneficiary student year on year since
2008, we have actually even witnessed reduced dropouts. This gives a sense of
achievement and we only pray for this continued progress.”
When asked about the plan of action for execution
the current academic he said “Oh, we are already in the action-packed week of
our project. This week we plan to prepare the stationery kits to be
distributed. Over a hundred, dedicated Team Umang volunteers are very excited
and enthusiastic to participate in the assembling of the stationery kits. No
doubt, its a back breaking work but the members are extremely determined and
hard working. Next week June 23, 2012 will mark our grand finale. More than
10,000 students will be the beneficiaries and we consider ourselves lucky to be
able to witness the smiles on the faces of the thousands of the beneficiary
students for one more year.” On being questioned about the adopted strategy of
funding his calm reply was that “We use to get worked up and hassled earlier
when it came to arrangement of funding but now we simply have learnt the
magical effect of compounding of small amounts. For the collection of this year’s
stationery kit distribution, we have
simply tried to explain that a decision
to contribute less than one rupee a day will secure an entire academic year of
a needy student. This concept has been well received and people including
individuals and corporate have realized that the otherwise insignificant one
rupee has a such a profound compounding effect !! The response we got has left
us spell bound. At Umang Foundation we believe that there’s more to life....Similarly, we had promised every
contributor that there’s more to your
rupee and June 23, 2012 will witness how truly have we lived our
promise !!
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