| Location: | Shinkiari, Pakistan |
| Age: | 16 |
| Program: | High School |
| Duration: | 1 year |
| Required: | $80 |
| Date Completed: | January 28, 2009 |
| Partner Organization: | Maria Helena Foundation |
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Sundas hopes to become a teacher if she is able to continue her studies. She has completed grade 8 with above average marks from the rest of her class. Her father is a restaurant worker which entails long hours and hard work. Supporting Sundas and her 5 siblings is difficult enough, and having to meet the school expenses for Sundas will be practically impossible.
Tameer-e-Millat Hazara Public School & College
The TMH public school in Shinkiari was damaged beyond repair when an earthquake struck the area in October 2005. Homes of many of the students were also destroyed. 80,000 lives were lost and many thousands injured and left homeless. The school would have been closed if it were not for local and international charities that put up temporary tents so that the students' education could continue. A substantial donation by the Maria-Helena Foundation built a new school on what was the previous school’s playground and this is where the students study today.
NOTE: This letter is from the Managing Director of the school attended by Maria Helena students in Shinkiara.
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We are thanking Education Generation for the recently sanctioned Scholarships @ US $ 10.00 per month in effect from January to August 2009 for deserving students of our 9th Class.
The local community, parents and especially the students of this school are grateful for your financial and moral support to this institution which serves the community and provides quality education to each and every child without any discrimination of race, sect, status and religion.
We pay thanks to you for considering more scholarships, this will be a great help to those who indeed deserve your support. We assure our best services for the uplift of the deprived masses of the community and proper utilization of even a single penny donated to us in this regards.
Thanking You,
Abdur Rehman Suleria
Managing Director
Posted Feb 8, 2009
