Bhobodoho update: 28 students’ fee paid - 513 to go
On our first day of the internet fundraising, we have had 28 student’s SSC exam fee paid for i.e we raised $490. We have 513 more students to reach out to. Come on all. We can do this before year end. $17 pays for 1 student. All of you can afford at least one student. Enough talk. Let’s do something that will actually make a difference. Here is the list of schools we are going to in Bhobodoho.
If you are in Dhaka, send an SMS Message “VOBO” to ‘2233′ from any mobile phone operator in Bangladesh. This money will aid the students at Bhobodoho to complete their SSC/ HSC exam registration. Also for larger donation, write to info At Drishtipat dot org or type in a comment in this entry with your contactable email.
Update: Slight miscalculation in converting $ to taka. For each student the cost is 1200 take which roughly$17 a student.
List of people who donated:
Saleh Tanveer
Charisma Choudhury
Mizanur Majumder
Raihan Rafique
AL-MUSTANSIR MUKHLES
December 21st, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Great initiative by Drishtipat Virginia. I am definitely going to send a check. This is a great timing for giving( Hajj season and Holidays are at the same time this year).
I think an option for pledge would attract more people.
The total amount collected seems quite small, historically in Drishtipat we have seen much more is very short period of time. Are we not reacing out enough people yet?
-Sharmin
December 25th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
The new chapter at Virginia Tech has taken up this project. They are planning to do an event in Blacksburg in Jan/Feb and most students are off for the holidays. Asif also sent this out the the main DP mailing list, don’t remember if the online pledge was on that mail. Maybe a second reminder this week would help as people are still making 2006 tax year donations.