Promotion of education

‘Al-Ameen Lok-hit Charitable Trust’ with many facet activities works on state level basis in the state of Gujarat with prime thrust on promotion of education among educationally backward sections of the society.

The Trust to accelerate promotion of education extends financial assistance to needy and deserving and needy students going for higher education in professional courses,

The Trust is working on state level basis and receives applications from all over the state and the flow of applications is swelling year after year. Trust on its part is not in a position to provide funds for all the applications received.

Further one of the reasons for swelling of number of applications is the high scale of fees in professional courses colleges which is beyond the reach of average middle class family in our community, since they have now inner desire for education for their children but they are at the receiving end hence they approach ‘Al-Ameen Lok-hit Charitable Trust’ for financial assistance for higher education.

The present situation has another dimension also. Now people have started realising the need and importance of education for better tomorrow. The students already getting education have strong desire for higher education and to achieve excellence in education.

There is every reason to believe that awareness about education has certainly arisen among students and in the event of not getting admission in Gujarat the seek admission outside Gujarat in the state of Karnataka, Andhrapradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi. The needy and deserving students seek financial assistance from the Trust which is not possible to meet unless Trust has large finance at its disposal.

All these factors make it imperative on the part of the Trust to collect huge amount of Zakat/Lillah to help all the needy and deserving students to carry on their studies.

Activities :-

(1)  Trust extends financial assistance to needy and deserving students going for professional graduation and post graduation courses in medicine, engineering, information technology, pharmacy, chartered accountancy, company Secretary, works and cost accountant, hotel management, computer science, bio technology, bio information and such other professional courses. During the course of its activities the Trust has extended financial assistance to the tune of Rs.112.81 Lakhs to 1260 students as on 31-3-2004.

(2)  The Trust extends financial assistance for coaching to students of 11th & 12th Std. Science stream with preference to girls. The financial assistance extended to 11th Std. students comes to Rs.8.49 Lakhs and to students of 12th Std. come to Rs.6.71 Lakhs and the number of beneficiary students comes to 208 and 162 resp. as on 31-3-2004.                         

(3)  The dropout after 7th standard is the acute problem faced by society and rate is alarming due to financial crunch faced by parents. The Trust has launched a drive under

which financial assistance is given to students to continue or restart study who have left study after 7th Std. and to students who are likely to leave study between 8th to 10th Std. and as on 31-3-2004, 2511 students have been given assistance to the tune of Rs.11.54 Lakhs.

(4)  During current academic year the Trust has motivated students to go for job oriented diploma courses after Xth Std. The motivation is well received and Trust considered financial assistance to deserving students during academic year 2004-2005. The details in subsequent pages.       

(5)  As a result of the precarious conditions created by recent carnage in Gujarat many of the parents could not pay regular fees of their children studing in primary schools and it was likely that they may miss their annual examination. The Trust paid the fees of 2nd term to the tune of Rs.1.30 Lakhs to the needy students.

(6) The promotion of education and felicitating excellence in education is the tradition of the Trust and following this tradition in year - 2003 Mr. Zein Bhatia of U.S.A. and the Trust jointly felicited10 students of H.S.C. science stream, 11 students of H.S.C. general stream and 12 students of S.S.C. making a total of 33 students which consisted of 12 boys and 21 girls. Each rewardee of science stream was given a  cash prize of Rs.2,000/-, general stream Rs.1,500/ - and S.S.C. Rs.1,000/- and a citation. These students got merit position among one to ten in their district. Further these achievements were given exposer on the pages of colour Sunday Supplement of ‘Gujarat Today’.

The Trust persued the tradition year 2004 and 36 successful candidates during examination held in 03-2004 are felicitated with cash prize and citation. The details of students are on subsequent pages.

This year it is our fervent appeal to you and to all your friends and relatives to allocate sizeable amount of your Zakat/Lillah to ‘Al-Ameen Lok-Hit Charitable Trust’ to make best use of the Zakat/Lillah amount.

I and members of the Board of Trustees sincerely wish, you to give consideration to the unprecedented situation that has arisen as far as higher professional course studies are concerned and will allocate sizeable amount of Zakat/Lillah to the Trust and will also motivate friends and relatives for the same.

If you wish you may adopt the students directly or through us.