INDIAN STUDENTS EDUCATIONAL AID FOUNDATION

INDIAN STUDENTS EDUCATIONAL AID FOUNDATION Website: - www.iseaf.org (The Societies Registration Act, 1860, 133/Goa/95) Office: - Rai, Siolim, Bardez, Goa 403 517. E-Mail:- iseafoff@gmail.com German E-Mail:- ausbildungshilfe@web.de German Website: - www.ausbildungshilfe-indien.de Our Waiting List Website: www.iseaf-info.org DECEMBER 2013 Dear Sponsors, We are at the fagend of the year 2013 and are looking forward to greet the year 2014. Indian Students Educational Aid Foundation sends warm greetings to all our sponsors, well wishers, and patrons and wishes them all MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. This academic year 2013-14, 151 students completed their education. We received 472 applications for scholarship this year. After scrutinizing all these applications and conducting personal interviews 125 students were given scholarships this year. More than fifty students are kept in the waiting list www.iseaf-info.org. It will be very much appreciated if you can recommend to your friends and associates to visit this website so that some of our students may get some sponsors and it will enable them to complete their education. First step of the new building of Indo German Techno Centre is ready for occupation. Since it is close to Mapusa city we will get more students and it will be easy to get teaching faculties. Due to government s new policy, materials for the construction are not available and the cost of construction has increased a lot. However we intent to complete the remaining portion of the ground floor as early as possible. Our Home Nursing Bureau is functioning very well. All the students who were being educated are working. This inspired us to start a placement bureau for 1

the students who are being educated in other trades. A placement bureau was inaugurated on 28 th September 2013 at the hands of Mr. Laxmikant Parsekar, Hon. Minister of health, Govt. of Goa. Around 200 students registered in this bureau. We will be organizing campus interviews for these students so that the firms who need manpower can recruit them personally from the campus. I do get queries from some sponsors. They read that Indian economy is growing fast. If that is the case do your students need help? So I thought of writing about it to clear all doubts. It is true that Indian economy is boosting. But unfortunately it benefits only the rich people. All the leading motor vehicles in the world are available in India. These privileged classes have all luxuries. But the poor people struggle. The inflation hits them very badly. Many of them even find it difficult to have full meals. They have a miserable life. We are working for such people and try to educate them and place them in a comfortable position in the society. We are pleased to answer all the queries from our sponsors about their students or about our organisation. So you are free to ask more & more questions and we will give you all the required information s. We humbly admit that this organisation is functioning only because of your patronage, help and morale support. Please find enclosed few stories of successful students who received scholarship from ISEAF. We also enclosed some interesting stories of students who completed their education from our technical institutes. Yours Sincerely Jacob Mathew President & Chief Functionary ISEAF SONAM PILGAONKAR 2

My name is Sonam Pilgaonkar. I stay at Pilgao, Bicholim. I scored 82% marks for my X th class board examination. But our financial condition was very bad. My father was working as a casual labourer and he does not get job regularly. My mother is housewife and she does not have any income of her own. Besides I have two sisters they are also studying. Our principal told me about Indian Students Educational Aid Foundation and how they help poor students like me. I applied for the scholarship and I was selected and that was the turning point in my life. Now I am a postgraduate in Chemistry and work as a lecturer of Chemistry in St. Xavier s College, Mapusa. I got a very good sponsor Mrs. Ursula Wolf. She was like my second mother. Every year she comes to visit me along with her other students. She sends her periodical letters were very encouraging. This helped me in keeping good spirits through out my student life. I am very grateful to her for all her help. Today I am very happy and content. It is all because of ISEAF. SHIVPRAKASH NAIK Shivprakash lives at Colvale. After passing X th class he joined the family of ISEAF in the year 2006. He passed XII th class with very good marks and joined the engineering college at Shiroda in the Information Technology section. He passed engineering in Computer Science with a distinction and soon appointed in Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Bambolim as post graduate teacher in computer science. He was born in a very poor family. His father is a casual labourer. But he was not getting a regular job. Besides his sister and his younger brother were also students. The parents struggled for spending money for their education. Fortunately all the siblings were being helped by ISEAF to pursue their education. He was sponsored by Mrs. Christine Warnke & Mr. Egon Feldema. Shivprakash is very happy with his job. He is very grateful to his sponsor couple. Their encouragement and support helped him to achieve his goal in life. If he has not come in contact with ISEAF his future would have been different. Now his parents can takes rest and he will be able to look after the family. GLANCY MONTEIRO 3

Glancy lives at Sao Jose Areal, Salcete. She joined the family of ISEAF in the year 2007 after passing her X th class examination. She joined in Carmel Higher Secondary School and opted for science stream. After passing XII th class she joined for Batchlor of Pharmacy in Goa Pharmacy College and passed the examination with good marks and soon appointed in Dream Cross Pharmacy in Margao. She is very grateful to ISEAF and her sponsor Mrs. Martina Griesenbach for her morale support and encouragement. She could make a career only with the help of ISEAF. Her father was a helper of a carpenter and mother is housewife with out any income. During her last visit to this office she told that she will help another needy student soon. VIPUL AMRE Vipul lives at Pirna, Bardez. His father was a farm labourer and there was no regular work. Mother is housewife and she did not have any income. He had one sister and one brother and both were younger to him. Vipul join ISEAF in the year 2005 after passing X th class. He has been sponsored by Mrs. Jessica Weis from 2005 till he finishes his education. Now he is a post graduate and completed his teacher s training and presently working as a teacher in Chubby Cheeks Spring Valley High School, Porvorim. Vipul Amre is very grateful to ISEAF for providing him the scholarship. He appreciated always his sponsor s way of writing letters which were always encouraging and he is very thankful for the periodical letters she has been sending to him. He likes his teaching job and thanked his sponsor for all her help and support. MALAIKA JOAN FERNANDES Malaika joined in the family of ISEAF in the year 2007. She had a very sad family background. Her father deserted the family and her mother had to go back to her parents along with Malaika and her younger sister and brother. But all of them took it as a challenge. Fortunately all the children are bright and ISEAF provided scholarship to all three children. Malaika completed her education and she is working in Mumbai. I shall enclose her recent letter to our office which will speak about the job 4

and her sponsor and what she feels about the Organisation. I am Malaika Fernandes, (File No. 2243), recipient of the ISEAF scholarship. I am writing to you to inform you of my recent achievements. I completed my Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations and Corporate Communications from Xavier Institute of Communications (XIC, Mumbai) in March 2013 with merit. Through college placements I got a job with Genesis Burson Marsteller, Mumbai, one of the finest PR and communications firm in the country.(http://www.genesisbm.in/ )I began work on the 1st of June, 2013. I will henceforth be based in Mumbai. Kindly inform me if I have any closure procedures to complete. I am very grateful to you and to my sponsor Mrs. Jenkins for all the financial support you have rendered to my family and me. Please do thank the office staff like Kavita and others too on my behalf. You will always be in my prayers and credited with my success. Warm regards Malaika Fernandes (+91 9930258582) RICHARD FERNANDES beautician but was getting a very small amount as salary. I had an elder brother who was also a student. Since we did not have a house to live we had to pay rent for the small house we were staying. I passed XII th class with 88% marks. I wanted to become a computer engineer. I was told that ISEAF helps poor and meritorious student and I applied for the scholarship and was selected after the personal interview. My future was assured. I could fulfill my ambition in life. My sponsor couples were like my parents. Mrs. Roswitha & Mr. Dr. Thomas Leske. They often wrote to me good letters and their encouragement helped to get back my self confidence. After passing engineering from Verna College of engineering, I am appointed as Senior Executive Officer in Computers of Ideas unlimited a firm in Panaji. I like my job very much and I am paid well. Now I want to give my mother a break. I am capable of looking after my family. This was possible only because of ISEAF NEHA RATNAKAR MESTRY My name is Richard Fernandes. I stay at Pilern, Bardez. My childhood days were very painful. My father separated from my mother and married again. She works as a My name is Neha Ratnakar Mestry. I am 22 years old and completed my graduation in batchlor of Computer application. Presently I am working as Information Technology Instructor at Government College, Virnoda. I am happy with my new job. 5

But this was not the case few years back. When I was a student of VIII th class my father died due to an accident. He was the only earning member in our family. My mother was only a house wife and she did not have any income. My elder brother was also a student in the college. My mother learned stitching and soon started stitching cloths for the neighbours. Thus she started earning something for the family. Our headmaster told me about ISEAF and I applied for the scholarship and I was selected. Due to my good luck I got a very good sponsor Mrs. Susanne Beck. Her encouraging letters supported me through out my student life. Now I am happy that I got a good job and I enjoy doing the work. SULAKSHA PHADTE Batchelor of Education. She is working as a lecturer in Fr. Agnel College, Verna. Sulaksha is very grateful to her sponsor Mrs. Dominique Carstens. She has been writing her letters regularly. This helps her a lot in her student life. Sulaksha believes that her future would have been difficult if she had not come in contact with this wonderful person. SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS OF OUR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES PUNAM LAXMAN VAIGANKAR Sulaksha lives at Curtorim, Salcete. She joined in the family of ISEAF in the year 2005 after passing X th class. She was sponsored by Mrs. Dominique Carstens for more than eight years till she completed her post graduation in mathematics (M.sc) and her teachers training Punam lives at Sanquilim. After passing XII th class she joined Bhumika Technical Institute and opted for Computer Operator & Programming Assistant course. She completed the course successfully and soon was appointed as office assistant in Saibaba Fabrication, Honda. She is doing very well in her job and the company pays her a very good salary as she 6

proved her efficiency for working last three years in this firm. KRIPA KRISHNA HARMALKAR Kripa lives at Mandre, Pernem. After passing XII th class she joined ISEAF s Keerti Vidyalaya Technical Institute, Siolim for Beautician course. She passed out from the institute in July 2011. She worked with a beautician for six months and later started her own beauty parlor called Krutika at Madhalamaz, Mandre. She is getting a very good business as regular customers. Besides she is entrusted with Bridal makeup. She is very grateful to her teacher and the institute for guiding her to make her own career. MORRIS FERNANDES Morris lives at Devasu, Korgao in Pernem. After passing X th class he joined at ISEAF s Bhumika Technical Institute, Palye and opted for hotel management course. Immediately after completing the course he was selected and appointed in the service section of hotel Laguna in Anjuna. Recently he was promoted as steward and he is very happy with his new job. But Morris is very ambitious and he wants to work in a star hotel and is looking forward to that. He is very grateful to all his instructors who helped him to become a good steward. AMJAVALI SHEIKH Amjavali lives at Tivim, Bardez. After passing XII th class he joined ISEAF s Keerti Vidyalaya Technical Institute and took admission for Air Conditioning & Refrigeration course and passed out in the year 2011. He did his training in Aircon a firm in Porvorim. Soon after training he is appointed in Mina Scientific & Industries Traders at Ansabhat, Mapusa. He gets a good salary and is happy with the job. DHARMA TULASKAR Dharma lives at Pernem. When he failed in the X th class he thought that he failed in his life too. But one of his teachers told him about ISEAF s Bhumika Technical Institute. He joined there and opted for Air Conditioning & Refrigeration course. The following year he decided to join the electrician course also. Soon he was appointed in Resort Village Royal in Calangute as their maintenance technician. He is paid a very good salary and is capable of looking his family. 7

RAFAEL FERNANDES Rafael lives at Korjuvem, near Aldona, Bardez. After passing XII th class he joined Keerti Vidyalaya Technical Institute and took admission for Computer Hardware & Networking engineering course. He passed the examination in 2011 and is presently working for Systek a firm in Mapusa. He is very much interested in the work and wants to star his own firm in future. POONAM BHISHI Poonam lives at Korgao, Pernem. After passing X th class examination she joined in Keerti Vidyalaya Technical Institute, Siolim. She appeared for the Human Resource Development Foundation (HRDF) examination in the year 2010-11. From then she is working for our Home Nursing Bureau. She looked after so many patients and all these patients were very fond of her service and appreciated her sincere work. Presently she is working for Santan D souza, Siolim who is a very senior citizen. Poonam enjoys her work and she gets a very good salary which not only takes care of her expenditure but also can extend her family a helping hand. Our Dream Project Indo German Techno Centre is getting ready for occupancy 8

Hon. Minister of Health Mr. Laxmikant Parsekar lighting the traditional lamp at the time of inauguration of Placement Bureau at Keerti Vidyalaya Technical Institute The students of Home Nursing welcome the guests with their melodious song 9