Dayapuram Edoption -Queries

Queries

WHY THIS PARTICULAR SCHEME?

By virtue of being a fortunate and able person, with ample financial or academic resources, you are in a position to support the deprived of the society. You might already be doing your share of charity work by supporting various organizations. But most of the time, our help is inadequate in that it just does some patch work. We give money to some needy person but never the instruments that would eradicate his/her poverty structurally and systematically. In today’s economy, where knowledge is the most powerful instrument, if one is provided with consistent good education, there will be no need to repeat this act of charity every time. Receivers will turn out to be donors in due course. In addition, we don’t want this to work as a free education scheme, which will lose all its meaning in time. It is a scholarship based scheme and it is the challenge of the system at Dayapuram that all the students adopted by us remain eligible for scholarship on account of their good performance all through out.

One Person supports another later and the chain continues…

Moreover, the students taken under this scheme will need to, not pay the money back to Dayapuram, but adopt another kid’s education once they are placed and start earning. Thus it is a network that sets out to be self sufficient in time. Through this we also endeavour to convey the message that what Dayapuram does is just co-ordination of resources: we are mediating for a more just and effective redistribution of fortunes and try to get the weak their due in our transactions. This mechanism will, in future, find itself as a chain that will get abilities circulated in the body of our society.

Is the Machinery in a position to make use of offers of all kinds, instantly?

Not readily. Though we always appreciate your suggestions, involvement and willingness to help by joining this programme, we might not be able to make use of all the offers due to the constraints imposed on us by various factors. It might need some waiting to order things schematically. Sometimes, we might not be able to even make use of your offers in a few cases. But please do keep us posted on your offers and we will plan out programmes accordingly…

Will I be Called the Guardian of a Particular Child, if I pay for the Expenses of a Child’s Education?

The answer is an emphatic No. Just to avoid reader’s mistaking this for an appeal to adopt kids, who are either orphans or really poor, may we specify: we are a small organization which is not self sufficient to take up the financial requirements completely on our shoulders. We need to pay the teachers and other workers alongside building up the infra structural facilities. For any of this, we do not have any support from the Government or other agencies. We work with the fee collected from our financially stable students and occasional donations given by our generous well wishers. Thus financial support is quite important to our humble effort and we will always be grateful for your willingness to support. Your name surely will appear in our leaflets, magazines and elsewhere. But we WILL NOT name you as the guardian of a particular kind. The reason being, if a student has a particular guardian who gets him sweets and takes him out solely on the basis of paying money, one student gets differentiated in the name of guardianship. In addition, a sense of obligation creeps in to the kid’s mind and that leaves it apologetic and dependant for the rest of its life. We want a generation of people, who have a sense of belongingness and a feeling that what they get is their right and not generosity of a particular person. As it is against the fundamental spirit of the project, we are unable to do it.