I am glad I am here. Imagine if I placed the single ricketiest ladder in this building, the one that could be the most dangerous, in the corner of this room and asked you to climb up the ladder. As you go up that ladder we cheer for you and at some point we hold it for you to make it to the top…
And, wooooohooooo….. finally with much struggle, you make it. Then we all cheer for you since you made it to the top. But we all know your perseverance helped you get there.
Take a minute to think about this… We know every single person in this room got dealt with a rickety ladder at some point. And you would not be able to climb it but for the folks who helped to hold that ladder while you climbed. Today, It, indeed is a proud moment for all of us at UDAAN. We …show more content…
Your invaluable support has not only helped us reach our goal of INR 12.5 lacs but we have more than what we need, an amount of INR 23lacs in our school funds. We accept these donations with a deep sense of gratitude and a renewed sense of hope. Not only that, we have received phone calls from more than four volunteers to teach at our school.
I believe there is nothing that can stop us now. I want to tell about what’s doable and what’s next. With the funds we have, we would spend the amount to complete the school building. The construction costs would incur about INR 4.5 lacs. Besides this, we plan to setup a library to have access to reading books. The cost of library setup is estimated to be INR 1.5lacs.
In the near future, we would be offering student scholarships apart from books, uniforms and meals to all students. We aim to strengthen our teacher resources. We positively hope that we should be able to start the school for the next academic