Chhattisgarh Zakat Foundation gave away the scholarships to over 800 poor Muslim students who owing to steeped in poverty and backwardness couldn’t bear the burden of education they are pursuing.
In a programme organised at Shahid Smarak Bhawan in Raipur recently the genuinely needy Muslims students from Class 3 to those in graduation courses were provided with educational scholarships in the field of Education, a press release issued by the Foundation informed.
In the third year since its inception, the Chhattisgarh Zakat Foundation collects the Zakat given by the followers of Islam during the pious month of Ramadan and distribute them in the form of scholarship among the students. “This year the amount of Rs 30 lakh were distributed as scholarships. Our next year target is Rs 50 lakh”, said Mohammed Inamullah, the president of the Foundation.
The monetary support largely caters to the fees of the students in their schools and colleges. Mohammed Tahir, Foundation secretary told that the organisation deeply believes that education can salvage the community from the struggling of ignorance and widespread adversity. “The initiative is to create better scope and future possibilities for students mired in poverty and their backwardness that impede progress of all,” he said.
The students were scrutinised from the thousands of applications recieved and judiciously short-listed by team of the Foundation. The beneficiaries were from Raipur, Bhilai, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Saraipali, Bilaspur, Ratanpur, Chirmiri, Raigarh, Jagdalpur, Ambikapur, Kanker, Kondagaon, Nagri, Tilda, Bhatapara, Dhamtari an other places.
According to the Foundation treasurer Syed Akil, many of the members have proven themselves as quite resourceful by supporting various initiatives and resolving the functional challenges.