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Our general concept of a Home is a place where we live together in a house with the Father, Mother, and the children-all happily together. The father goes to work who is a bread-winner. Mother typically, is a Housewife, caring for the children, the father, and the home. The children go to school or college and prepare for their future career.

This has been a traditional concept and a picture of a typical family living in a home, we call a Sweet Home and a Happy Family.

Times have changed……

Now a day, the family finds it difficult to survive only on the Head of the Family’s income alone. The cost of living has increased, but not the income of a family as much. Everything is becoming expensive and unaffordable. The growing expenses of the household do not seem to keep pace with the financial resources required to support them. The family, which was once a happy family and a sweet home, wonders if they are happy any more as they once used to be. This is mostly a picture today, everywhere we look around, in our society.

Then there are those families which have either a single parent (where either a father or a mother is no longer with the family), physically challenged family (where a member of the family’s ability to perform normal day-to-day functions is impaired), and financially distressed families, with children without parents. Not so happy family or not a happy home.

But, children have to be educated so that they can stand on their own feet to survive in today’s world.

So, what are the options?

Government:

The government help is insufficient and does not cover majority students who are in need.

Private:

1. BUY: An Educational Loan.
   Today, inflation is very high, and the cost of education, including the tuition fees, is also very high, requires collateral, a down payment of some 20% of the loan amount, and at a higher interest rate. BUT, the loan has to be paid up, in full and with interest. Also, not all may qualify.
2. BEG:Not an option. Its considered dishonourable, shameful, disrespectful, Indecent and below dignity.

    OR

3. BORROW: From relatives, friends, acquaintance or neighbours (if they can afford, and are kind-hearted), but only a limited amount, and of course, with a moral obligation to repay.
4. SCHOLARSHIP: A viable option (which still cannot pay the entire expense).

Each one of us makes a society, and shall we say, the society also makes us, or helps us to be what we ultimately become, since we make a family, and the families make a society. So, you see, we all are connected. We have many things we share, knowingly or unknowingly. One helping the other. There never can only be one giver and the rest all takers. Can there be? Everyone must pitch in, or else, we all will breakdown.

The Vishwakarma Educational Trust (VET), is a charitable non-profit organization, is a similar home, made for and by all of us, like the members of the one big family, some supporting it and the rest remains supported. The fire of Education is fueled by very few, called the DONORS. The food, cooked by the fire is SCHOLARSHIP, which is consumed by the students who are the supported ones. And the “Happy Families” are thriving since 2006, until today.

It is our desire to see that the children of our society are not deprived of the college education because of higher college expenses. The VET wants to see that our daughters get the equal education as our sons, and that they have equal opportunities. The VET wants to increase the scholarship recipients, and to be able to give scholarships in greater amount. The Trust is happy to see that the students, which it has been supporting since 2006, are graduated and gainfully employed in jobs or business, and are settled, and have happy families of their own.

However, while the scholarship recipients are increasing steadily, the donation, which is the only source of the scholarship amount, is not increasing in the same proportion. The students and their parents make a signed commitment to help the Trust financially at the time of receiving scholarship for their children, but sad to say, none of them have given any financial help to the Trust thus far, so that the Trust can continue supporting other needy student’s education.

IS THE VET SCHOLARSHIP BEING ABUSED?

It is up to all of us to make the VET – our Home, a happy family. Few isolated donors cannot do it, alone, but if we all join our hands together, we can.

In our children’s happiness, lies our happiness. The society will prosper if we all help one another.

The joy and prosperity increase by giving and sharing.

“एक अकेला थक जायेगा, मिलकर हाथ बढ़ाना, साथी हाथ बढ़ाना.......”

Let us all contribute to make our home a Happy Home.

सर्वें सुखिनो भवन्तु
कुर्यात सदा मंगलम।