40 Underprivileged Girls Bag Money For School Education

Patiala: Working to fund the education of underprivileged and deprived females, Dr Harsh Charitable Trust, in 2013 has chosen forty pupils from Punjab to receive this assistance.

On April 21, the parents of these female who had reached from remotely regions in Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Ludhiana, and Jagraon areas got sponsorship cheques for their kids from trust president Dr Harshinder Kaur. Together with her hubby, Dr Gurpal Singh, Dr Harshinder had been battling the menace of female aborticide in the state.

“During our job in the medical field, we observed that parents did not invested in the education of girls owing to scarcity and non-productivity,” Dr Harshinder stated.

“Underprivileged parents, though, make their best attempt to teach their sons in private schools, whilst they send females to the administrative schools, where basic infrastructure was not up to the mark,” she added.

The trust created in the year 2008 gets contribution from some expatriates and local physicians.

“The monthly tuition fee of the girls we select for sponsorship is sent to the schools concerned,” said Dr Harshinder Kaur.

“The girls chosen have no family land or means of regular income. Either or father is no more or single parent is bringing them up. With the limited resources at our command, we are able to sponsor their education till Class 10 alone.”

The trust, thus far, has put 328 females in school, out of which 180 completed their matric in 2013.