Maniraja is learning a marketable skill!

Maniraja comes from a very modest family background and lives with his family in Tamil Nadu, India. His father, Mr.Ravi, is a mason by profession and his mother, Ms.Baby, is a home maker. He has three younger siblings – a brother studying in the 10th grade and two sisters studying in the 7th and 5th grade, respectively. His father barely earns enough to meet their basic needs and could not afford to get all his children educated.

Maniraja, opted to drop out of school and realized he would have to work and supplement his father’s income, in order to get his younger siblings educated. Being an ambitious boy, he inquired about the various vocational courses, that he could enroll for and decided to learn welding from Padma Industrial School.

He realized learning a marketable skill would help him find a job easily, but could not afford to pay the course fees at Padma.

Your generous donations, Laurent (x3), UBS (x3), Sharmila, Ioana and Radu (x5), enabled Padma Industrial School to bear the cost of Maniraja’s tuition for an entire your.

Thanks to your support, he can now focus on completing his course and hopes to get employed soon. He and his family are very grateful to each of you, for this kind gesture!

Thank you all, for your support!