Words from our founder President
Most of us help others whenever they find anyone in
trouble. It is a normal human tendency.But some people are passionate to help
the society and ready to sacrifice everything. We have many examples of people
like that. Those people have brought significant changes in our society. Due my
humble family background I have helping tendency from the childhood and by
nature I get emotional easily whenever I
see someone in trouble specially due to his/her poorness or social background. Although
by profession I am an Aeronautical engineer and serving in an airline but
teaching is my hobby and often I used to teach children/youth whenever I get
chance. Fortunately few years back I got chance to study about Two great personalities
of India one is Swami Vivekananda and other is Dr. APJ kalam and my life
changed totally 180 degree, afterwards. I got to know the purpose of my life. A
blend of my profession, my emotion, my hobby ,my helping tendency and impact of
Vivekanad and Kalam in my mind, made me a
passionate social worker. I am lucky enough that my wife and co-founder of SnS
vijayalaxmi jee has always stood by myside.
I studied about many social reformers.
All had some particular reason or inspiration to choose particular theme to
help the society. Some of them inspired
from any incident/accident happened with them or with their near and
dear. Some inspired by observing injustice, social discrimination ,financial discrimination,
illiteracy, etc. Some inspired by observing decaying of our mother earth and many more. But everyone has chosen some specific work
depending upon their expertise, choice, and need of the time.
Illiteracy in the society inspired
me to work in that field. We can easily see the consequences of illiteracy in
our society. Millions of children in our
country still out of reach to even basic education A huge number of illiterate
,unskilled and un aware youth added in country's population every year. They
are liability on us rather than asset to the nation.
They need to make realize that they have
infinite energy into themselves and this energy needs to be transformed into
productivity. They just need their mind to be ignited. It is our responsibly to change this liability into asset
to the nation by helping them to get livelihood based real education. As
teaching is my hobby I looked the problem and its solution in that way.
When I told my wife about my
decision she agreed immediately and became ready to be part of my mission which
is now hundreds of team member’s mission. Her qualification and educationist
family background made her excited to teach the needy one. Thus Stand N Stride formed in May 2016 and
there is no way to look back now.
Our main area of
work is child education. It is a understanding in some section of our society
that education has no role in their life. It is a fact that their many
generations didn’t get any education or were forced to get no education. They
just did what they were forced to do. They never thought their children can be
a teacher, clerk, officer, doctor . They think their destiny is also the same
what their forefather had. We have to change this situation. Stand N Stride is committed to bring the
confidence in those section that they also has the same opportunity like others
to be what they want to be.
Our first
priority is that everyone must get basic
education . In our thinking basic education means minimum class 10th
pass. The only purpose of the Education
is not to get a job but it is the right way to know the world. Due to present
education system number of school dropouts after class 8 are in millions. Up to
class 8th they are promoted automatically irrespective of fail/pass
in exam. When these children promoted in class 9th and when they
face real exam they just collapsed. It is very unfortunate situation that a
large number of students studying in class 8 not even write or read a single line even in
their mother tong. What kind of future we are generating. Just imagine.
Our complete
focus remains on that the child we adopt must pass class 10th. After
10th we decide what to do further depending upon child choice and
their family condition.
I am sure, with
dedicated team we will get success to make a change in the million’s life.
Thank you
Jai Hind
Amod Poddar
Founder
Stand N Stride Foundation
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