Samisti extended financial support to 15 students from Baba Gurudev College, Sattenapalli, AP. These students are from financially distressed families. Samisti assisted them with tuition fee for 2023-2024 school year. Recently one of our core team members: Nagesh Pulipati visited the college and met with the students and staff.
Here’s what Nagesh said in his own words after his visit in Jan’24:
First of all I wish Samisti team Happy Pongal.
Subbu scheduled our meeting at 10am on Jan 11th. I started from Amaravathi at 8:30 am reached the school at 9:30am, came to know that the school had a holiday. The english teacher(Sylvia) reached school around 10:15 am and Principal arrived around 10:30am, and all students and their parents arrived around 10:45 am (pretty normal IST … lol). One student (Nazma) came to meet us when I was in Principal’s room and she was bold enough to ask me to help her sister, she talked to me in English whole time. I was impressed by her boldness.
We all gathered in one of the class rooms. I was accompanied by my friends: Veera Raju and Mallik, both helped Samisti in screening the students. Initially we asked all the students to introduce themselves, their name, class, native place, etc… and then Sylvia madam introduced about Samisti. I spoke about Samisti and its goals. Then Principal spoke, followed by my friend Mallik. All in all it lasted for about an hour.
When students were being introduced, some of the students became emotional along with their parents. They were very grateful for the Samisti’s assistance. At the end we took pictures with students, their parents.
While I was leaving Sylvia madam introduced another student to me. I think he is brother of an existing sponsored student. This kid is quite bright, and Sylvia spoke very good about him. So I decided to sponsor him personally and told them the same.
Overall it was very satisfying experience for me and I am very proud to be part of Samisti.