A Request

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December 30, 1999

 

Dear Editor

 

Please help us by publishing the following appeal.

God bless you.

 

Regards,

 

Pankaj Ghosh

3404 Upshur Street

Brentwood, MD 20722

301-927-6393

 

 

 

 

 

An

Appeal

 

 

In the birth place of Swami Brahmananda, the first

President of the Ramakrishna Mission, in Sikrakulingram in the district

of 24 Parganas in West Bengal there is a small Ramakrishna Mission

Ashrama. In the surrounding villages more than 90% of the population are

farmers, day laborers and most of them are tribal. Government established

few tuition free elementary schools in the villages. The poor parents

cannot even provide two meals a day for their children let alone to buy

books and other supplies for them. We, few ex-students of Ramakrishna

Mission Pathuriaghata - Narendrapur center in this country, raised a very

meager fund to establish a Foundation named Brahmananda Educational

Foundation under the supervision of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama in

Sikrakulingram. From the interest of that fund the mission authority is

buying books and other supplies for the poorest children. We know that

this kind of need is everywhere in the villages of West Bengal in

particular and in India in general. Just for the sake of starting

something somewhere no matter how minuscule it is and as Mother Teresa

used to say, " Find your own Calcutta to love " , we started such a project.

We believe that one day this minuscule project will turn into a mammoth

one with your help. Please help us to build it. A kind drop of your tear

in the ocean of such a vast need will go long way. Only ten dollars can

buy the supplies for each student for the whole year. Please make your

tax-deductible contribution by writing a check made out to ‘Ramakrishna

Foundation' (this is in Los Angeles) and for book-keeping and accounting

for this project only send it to Pankaj Ghosh, 3404 Upshur Street,

Brentwood, MD 20722. We will send your check to Ramakrishna Foundation

after doing the book entry in our record. If your donation is $250.00 or

more, the Ramakrishna Foundation will send you a receipt according to

IRS regulation otherwise your canceled check is your receipt. If you have

any questions, please e-mail at panka or write to us.

 

 

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