NOOR - LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE

AIM: To organise Higher Education Awareness in the area. TARGET AREA: SOUTH GUJARAT. Focus is on the area which covers 100 kms radius around Alipore.

Since the year 2004-05, we have been encouraging the local population with Higher Educational benefits. Our aim is to bring about major changes in the literacy level in the community. To achieve the aim we had held several Higher Education Promotional Programmes and Health Awareness Sessions, where we advice. Our counseling sessions has not only benefited the poor students but also to comparatively richer students and their families.

CATCH THEM YOUNG AND WATCH THEM GROW (CTYWTG)
Let us make generationext a responsible, self-reliant and self-sufficient. We want our generationext to become a professionals. Our vision is to educate atleast one child in each village for job-oriented and career- based Higher Education, which will eventually help his family and in future shall give back to the community. Our programme, 'Catch Them Young and Watch Them Grow' (CTYWTG), which was started 2006-07 and was aimed at students from Standard VIII focuses on encouraging students to dream big and aim high. To hunt these talented poor but eligible students, a Committee consisting of Educationalist was formed. These Professionals are in continuous contacts with the teachers in the villages and get information regarding their studies. We want to identify poor students from our area who are eligible for IAS, IPS, IIM etc. Degree courses too.

There are potentials in these young children, all they require is some counseling, words of inspiration and encouragement from us all and later when they opt  for Higher Education, they require Financial Back-up which we give under THE RAINBOW FAMILY-SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME, a Muslim Aid UK and Alipore Social Welfare Trust Joint Venture .

GIRLS EDUCATION : The Higher Education Awareness Programme has encouraged parents to send their female child for Graduation. During the Academic Year 2008-09, out of 20 Medicine students we have 9 female students who shall soon become Doctors, out of 7 Dental Surgery students we have 6 female students.  
We also have female students in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and other faculties too who are beneficiaries under The Rainbow Family Scholarship Programme.

Our slogan for Each Academic Year were as under:

Academic Year	SLOGAN FOR THE YEAR
2005-06	‘Education – The future depends on what we do in the present.’
2006-07	‘Higher Education- the only option for future generation’
2007-08	‘Higher Education – Our Social Responsibility’
2008-09	‘Today’s choices can lighten tomorrow’s compulsions.’
2009-10	‘Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.’

 

 ALIPORE SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST

Department of Education