RCB Helping Stranded Afghan Students
There are many Afghan students in India. With the severe crisis (on various levels) in their home country, many of them are stranded: without food or shelter and some without both. With uncertainty staring at their faces, they try to make ends meet. This includes lapsed visas, bleak job prospective, difficulty in returning home – just a few to name.
RCB’s International Committee took the initiative after the Consul General spoke to our Club last year during one of the regular Tuesday meetings. Initially, we met with Her Excellency at the consulate and got a better understanding of the situation. Together we identified the critically needy out of many hundred stranded in and around Bombay. Many do not even have access to the most basic things in life and need to beg.
PP Gul Kripalani was crucial in identifying a donor to contribute INR 20 lakh towards meeting their most urgent requirements. To start with, the money will be distributed to 40 students on a monthly basis for the next five to six months. While we get to know them better, we will also have a better idea of where help is needed and how we can help best. Internships are among topics of high relevance.
The Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, taken by photojournalist Steve McCurry. It appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine. The image is of an adolescent girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. The image became emblematic of refugee girl / woman located in some distant camp deserving of the Western viewer’s compassion and a symbol of Afghanistan to the West.
Let us try to help Afghan students in our country get a better chance;
they deserve it!
PP Gul Kripalani was crucial in identifying a donor to contribute INR 20 lakh towards meeting their most urgent requirements.
To start with, the money will be distributed to 40 students on a monthly basis for the next five to six months.
While we get to know them better, we will also have a better idea of where help is needed and how we can help best.
Internships are among topics of high relevance.