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A Lily SMILE Recipient's Perseverence Pays off
Chandra Bhushan Mishra comes from a poor family where his father has been a building electrician earning a mere Rs. 3000/- per month supporting a family of five. Chandra through outside private tutoring earned whatever little possible to help the family. He was a proud recipient of Lily SMILE scholarship from 2006 to 2012.
After completing his graduation, Chandra Bushan has just been offered an assignment with Mahindra Satyam (http://www.mahindrasatyam.com/ ) at Rs 1.5 lacs per annum with the possibility of a global assignment at a Multinational Company.
At the behest of Purnendu and Kajori Dasgupta of
All High School Coaching Homes have an excellent track record of achieving high degree of success in graduation and increasing number scoring 60% marks or above from a group of students who typically have been on the pass-fail borderline at admission.
The IX th Annual Education Conference in Birla Institute of Art and Culture was an all-day event to remember. Several highly acclaimed speakers from the academic world of Kolkata adored the occasion. Chief Guest Prof. Subimal Sen, former chairman of West Bengal Council of Higher Education and retired director of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics reminded students of their responsibility to give back when they became established in life. The packed hall of 250 students, teachers and honorable guests listened to the students with rapt attention as they spoke about their own plight to acquiring higher education in the face of dire poverty through timely assistance from Lily Foundation. Rashmi Sharma, English Channel and
“SMILE-High” achievers were rewarded for performance. Best-Performing High School Coaching Home award went to Narrah for several years in a row. Shampa Das was rewarded by her long-time sponsor for breaking her family poverty cycle as she just became a professional nurse after achieving high marks in graduating exam.
New SMILE sponsorship and general donations came through from the guests.
20th Triumphant Year
Feed-the-Needy Program on November 18th 2012 as pre-Thanksgiving treat was a grand success as it has been in the past 20 years!
We added on more volunteer participants this year starting from elementary school kids to teenagers. They say charity begins at home and sure enough the kids in a homely atmosphere were all excited to help and serve. All kids received a certificate of participation. We entirely revamped our menu under the guidance of our master chef Mohammad Veerji. All adult participants were assistant chefs. Tasty recipes, like Chicken Fajita, and all the sides to go along with it were prepared with raw ingredients and lots of goodwill. The chefs then turned into hosts, all standing and serving the folks hot freshly cooked food with salad, tortillas and dessert. Our new participants had the opportunity to learn more about the activities of Lily Foundation and expressed willingness to participate in such events in the future.
The Gospel residents and street residents all enjoyed the food with multiple rounds. The Union Gospel Mission (UGM), Fort Worth, leaders appreciated the team for the excellent treats to the homeless. We feel proud to be associated with UGM which is an example of dedication to the human cause.
Upcoming Attraction:
The next regularly scheduled luncheon will be served at UGM, on Mother’s Day in May 2013. Don't miss the group-cooking fun. More details on the Program at
The sponsor list of 170 grew past 190 in the last 3 months. For merely $15 dollar a month ($180 a year), the sponsor is able to help a young, meritorious and needy student to the degree that he/she would soon take the pride of breaking his age-old family poverty. All the more, the sponsor can choose the state, district or the school as preference. The recent sponsors are:
Richard Lynn Burge, Toni Tigert, Leela Shankarsingh, Dhiren Maharaj, Polly Higley and Manas and Tapash Sarcar, Dilip Basu, Arun Singh, Indrani Roy, Writwik & Gargi Nanda, Serge & Rima Manning, Sasanka Sekhar Hazra, Purna Chandra Halder, Swapna Ghosh Dastidar, Somu & Rajashi Ghosh, Sangeeta Gangopadhyay, Arijit & Srijata Choudhury, Munish Chhabra, Arati Chakraborty, Kalyan & Dolly Basu, Amal & Ranu Baidya, Proactive Dental Associates, One World Bank employees, Eskay Management Realty, Karen and Scott Snorton.
To sponsor or to learn more visit http://www.lilyfoundation.org/lilysmile.html
The popularity of the course can gauged by the fact that the number of students swelled from 15 to 30 in matter of just one week.
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