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The CSS Foundation supports bright kids who can’t afford an education
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Hope floats For academically-inclined kids
Three years ago, Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS) started a programme aimed at helping children in rural and semi-rural areas who couldn’t continue their education despite a good showing in the examinations. With the support of NGOs, CSS Foundation
identified such children and took them under its wing. Today, it has made a difference in the lives of about 600 students.
As a partner in Aid India’s Eureka Sponsorship Program, the Foundation has spared 381 students the worry about funding their education. They are sponsored from Class IV to college. While this programme covers five districts in Tamil Nadu, another is focussed on Srivilliputhur. It has joined hands with the ICCW for this, and is bringing hope to the lives of 171 children. These students, who are in Class IX or above, will also be supported till they finish college.
Shiv Kumar, one of the founders of CSS, who is passionate about making education accessible to the underprivileged, says that in small towns such as Erode, people go into debt to put their children in good schools.
A solution
“As providing them good education will bring about a more lasting solution to the family’s financial problems, these parents resist sending their children to work. It is the same as choosing homeopathy over allopathy. The cure is not immediate, but the hope of a permanent cure helps the patient cope with the pain.”
The Foundation believes that children of such sensible, well-meaning parents have to be helped. For their part, the children have to show promise. “They should have an impressive academic record — nothing less than 60 per cent will do.”
In the belief that good teachers make for good students, the Foundation attempts to improve teaching standards in five government schools. In partnership with ASHA, it has trained 14 teachers who have subsequently been employed in these schools. The foundation pays their salaries.
To add colour to the lives of the school students it supports, the Foundation organises fun trips for them. Recently, about 50 CSS employees in Chennai played host to 100 children from rural Tamil Nadu.
The Foundation also helps improve the infrastructure of Government schools and provides direct scholarships for college students. Fifteen students of engineering have benefitted so far.
As the Foundation wants to increase the number of beneficiaries, needy students and schools can send in requests to cssfoundation@csscorp.com or call 9840714729.
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