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?Rs. 1,00,000/- a year, would help sponsor (one batch of) a Nursery School in a poor locality. (Nursery School)

?Rs. 50,000/- a year ensures professional education for a meritorious student. (HCES)

?Rs. 15,000/- provides dry ration to a widow and her family for a whole year. (Ration Support)

?Rs. 15,000/- per year helps a meritorious child continue his/her education. (Educational Adoption Scheme)

?Rs. 5,000/- enables us to provide a sewing machine to a destitute woman in order to make her self reliant.

?Rs. 5,000/- a year will cover a child’s school / college fees. (Educational Aid)

?You can help in any of these activities by setting up a Corpus (dedicated to the memory of a near one) and build it up over the years. Establish a Sawaab-e-Jaariyah!

?You can send your Donations / Zakat to MESCO.

Your Support, Our Motivation

After almost a long wait, MESCO Education Society which used to have many a fund raising events in terms of staging plays, having Mushairas, Ghazal programmes etc., for Fund raising for the school is now poised to once again have a Fund Raising Programme.

We hope to raise funds to meet our deficits through booking of space in the Souvenir to be brought out on the occasion.

Our Nursery Schools programme is MESCO's oldest institutional activity; the first Nursery School was set up in 1973 at a hutment colony, Ittefaque Nagar, at the foot of the Western Express Highway, off Mahim Causeway. As time passed and salaries and other costs increased we introduced a small fee; about two decades back we added a second and then a third and over the last ten years we have added a few more schools to reach the present No. of schools. We had to increase the fees gradually, all the time taking conscious decisions about target population’s ability to pay.

We have a fantastic curriculum, trained and highly motivated staff. We follow the learning by doing and child centred learning approach; our teachers have developed a large store-house of teaching aids which are made by them; they attend workshops arranged by professional groups such as Indian Association for Pre-school Education (IAPE) now called AECED (Association for Early Childhood Education Development); our teachers try out different approaches after reading books borrowed from libraries (such as British Council).

Our idea of having these door step schools is to ensure that parents find it convenient and send their children to our schools. Our children get admission in the best of high schools of the area. We have second generation learners in quite a few schools, where even the parents came to our schools and now their children are studying with us. We have conducted surveys and found that these slum students progress and move to higher levels, beyond college and even into professional and post-graduate levels, inspite of the fact that our schools are being conducted in English medium and in most cases the parents may not know English.

What then is our problem???? The problem is sustainability. Had it not been sustainability, we would be conducting at least 50 schools by now, if not more.

We are currently operating at 35% self sufficiency inspite of increasing the fees slightly every year. Last year we decided to increase the fees substantially, in all schools in order to take the self sufficiency to 75%. The result was crippling, the enrolment fell drastically. We have therefore now decided to go slow on the self sufficiency by raising fees slightly every year. We decided to cover part of the deficit by raising funds through seeking advertisement in the brochure to be brought out; we have planned our Nursery Schools' Annual Function on 16th December, 2012 at which the Brochure will be released.

EDITORIAL

I. INDIA GIVING CHALLENGE 2012

II. Standard Chartered MUMBAI MARATHON - 2013

We were able to raise over Rs.5 lacs during the IGC 2012 through the kind co-operation of all you donors who rose to the occasion and contributed not only the minimum Give amount of Rs.550/- but even much beyond. This year we improved our performance of last year, in addition we have qualified to receive Rs.50,000/- as prize money during this six weeks journey, and if we qualify to be amongst top ten NGOs we shall attract additional prize money. The results of the Event will be announced on 9th November, 2012. We thank all our supporters for making this possible.

As reported in the last MESCO NEWS we would be participating in the Mumbai Marathon to be held on 20th January, 2013. As MESCO is participating for the first time in this event it has been allotted 15 Bibs only, which means we can field in only (15 runners) participants. If we are able to get 15 sponsors at Rs.10,000/- each we will be allowed a larger contingent next year (of 50 participants). Our appeal to you is to sponsor the remaining 10 Bibs (5 have already been sponsored) before the end of November, 2012.

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Please book advertisement space in the Brochure to be brought out on the occasion. Call Mrs. Tanveer on 9892838632.

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October 2012

THIS QUARTERCorpus Donation: We received Rs.4.55 lacs as donation towards MESCO's Corpus.

Membership: 4 Life members enrolled.

SponsorshipHCES (annual sponsorship of Rs.50,000/- per student): Received Sponsorship for 32 Professional course students.

Sewing Machines (Rs.5,000/- sponsorship amount per Singer sewing machine): 69 Sewing Machines were sponsored this quarter by 23 well wishers.

Ration (ration for one family for one complete year, Rs.15,000/-): We received sponsorship from 19 sponsors including those from M/s. Give India.

EAS (sponsorship amount Rs.15,000/- annually): We received Rs.21.35 lacs as sponsorship for 142 students from 64 well wishers.

Give India: We have to thank Give India through whom we received an amount of Rs.1,36,996/- during the current half year (from 26 individuals) for different purposes such as Food Support, Dialysis and General Medical Aid.

DonationsGeneral: We received Rs. 86,600/- by way of general (unspecified) donations.

Medical Assistance: Average sponsorship for one month's dialysis works to Rs.4,000/-.

We received Rs.9.35 lacs towards Medical Assistance programme, which includes General Medical Aid, High Cost Medical Aid and Dialysis.

Mobile Clinic: We received Rs.3.48 lacs from M/s. Valli Charitable Trust as part sponsorship towards deficit of Mobile Clinic, Thane.

Vocational Courses: We received Rs.68,270/- as donation towards our Vocational training Centres, one at Mumbra and the other at Dharavi.

Nursery Schools: We received Rs.75,000/- courtesy Mr. Mukhtar Chougle (towards the 50% deficit of one Nursery School). We have also received Rs.1.2 lacs to cover the total deficit of another Nursery School.

Interest amount: We received a total of Rs.1,25,938/- as donation of interest amount from 7 donors.

Zakat:We received a total of Rs.1.90 crores as Zakat amount in this quarter from several of our well wishers both as general Zakat and for specific purposes.

Newspaper Donations:

We received an amount of Rs.6,23 lacs this quarter through sale of old newspapers donated by our newspaper donors; we have added 61 new donors this quarter.

We are happy to report that we have received a letter from Mr. S.S.H. Ayubi, Chief Manager-PR, Central Bank of India that in response to our appeal the management has decided to donate the old newspapers to MESCO beginning November, 2012 from all the 3 staff quarters (located at Vile Parle (East), Belapur, Navi Mumbai and Thane) totaling almost 300 households.

YOU TOO CAN CONTRIBUTE YOUR NEWSPAPERS TO MESCO

AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO MANY LIVES.

NEWS ROUND UP

A Conclave was held on Saturday, 22nd and 23rd September, 2012 at Basera, Walvan, Lonavla, at our ex-President, Mr, Hafiz Baig's cottage. All Committee and Sub-Committee members were present.

Zakat Strategy planning Get Togethers were arranged on 1st July at Anjuman Islam School and on 8th July at Crescent English High School while a third was organized at G.M. Momin College, Bhiwandi on 15th July 2012.

During the period under report over a 100 EAS sponsorships were received; we received donation towards the Corpus of Rs. two lacs on behalf of Late Fouad Ahmed Iqbal Patel.

Office Premises: We have finalized for the office premises at G2 Udyog Mandir behind Johnson & Johnson, off Tulsi Pipe Road, near Mahim Railway Station. An ex-student of 10 years standing as an Architect, Mrs. Sameera Shaikh, has been helping us in an honorary capacity.

Zee Salaam had sent its team of 4 persons, who shot MESCO's activities at most of the locations on Monday, 1st October, 2012 from 8.0 a.m. until 7.15 p.m. The 27 minute documentary was scheduled to be telecast on Zee Salaam at 10:30 p.m. on 15th October in their programme “Yeh Gulistan Hamara”.

EDUCATIONAs mentioned in the last issue of MESCO News, in order to provide equal chance to all aspiring students to avail of the scholarships we gave out application forms for the different scholarship on the basis of drawing lots. 3 such sessions were held: Application forms for College level scholarships were given to 343 of 684 students present; 64 students received their application forms of the 128 students under EAS and 63 of 127 students pursuing professional courses received their application forms. We have completed disbursement of over 1.58 crores of rupees to students at different levels.

We are happy to report that during this quarter we have received repayment of Rs.11.63 lacs from 100 students. The following students have completed repayment of their educational loan during this quarter bringing the total No. of students who have completed their total loan repayment this far to 239.

We appreciate Dr. Sumaiya Khan, BUMS; Mr. Chirag Parekh, BE (Electronics), Ms. Noor Saba Sayed, BE (Electronics), Mr. Azim Siddiqui, (B.Arch.), Mr. Rameez Rangari, BE (Chem.) who have completed their total repayment during this quarter.

A total of 489 cases were interviewed by Committee Members in the different categories and 438 sanctioned.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Medical Services

During the half year ended 30th Sept., 83 cases under the General Medical Aid, 71 under the High Cost Medical Aid, 42 cases of dialysis of which 26 were under the “Life Long Dialysis” category and 16 under the 6 month dialysis were reviewed. A total of Rs.22.56 lacs was sanctioned for HCMA, while Rs.7.01 lacs was sanctioned for GMA and Rs.5.88 lacs sanctioned for 6 months dialysis and another Rs.11.79 lacs paid for Lifelong dialysis cases.

Under GMA, cases of cataract, hearing aid, minor surgery, pathological / diagnostic tests, minor surgeries etc., were assisted while under HCMA, Ischemic heart disease, hip replacement, bilateral osteoarthritis of knee/s, coronary artery disease, neogenic bladder etc.,

Clinics

The three Mobile Clinics and two Fixed Dispensaries served a total of 19,756 patients during this quarter. In addition, our Physiotherapy unit has been gradually serving increasing No. of

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patients; during the quarter the Physiotherapy Unit served 178 patients.

Beginning 17th September, we have initiated recruiting consultants who can see patients at Charity rates; Dr. Sachin Jain, Orthopedic Surgeon started giving his services at our Kurla Dispensary; he will be attending twice a week; and Dr. Avinash Jadhav, a Dermatologist, will be at our clinic once a week.

We received medicines from Dr. Pokar, a pediatrician from Bhiwandi; he has been a regular donor. In addition, AmeriCares India donated medicines worth Rs.2.49 lacs.

GENERAL AID:13 Singer Sewing machines were distributed, on 15th July, 2012 from RC Mahim Mun. School at the hands of Mr. P.V.S.L. Murthy, Dy. Gen. Manager, State Bank of India, Mr. J. Prasad, Branch Manager, SBI Mahim Branch and others.

190 Iftar packets donated by Muslim Aid, UK were also distributed on 15th July, 2012 from the same venue. Another 100 packets donated by Mr. Farouk Alimahomed were distributed from Cheeta Camp on 22nd July, 2012.

Old Clothes Distribution was organized at Jafery High School, Govandi on 30th September, 2012 when 11,000 clothes were distributed to 467 families.

INSTITUTIONS

Crescent English High School

A painting by Mr. A.R. Sharifi, Vice President was inaugurated at the hands of the President, Dr. A.A. Qureshi. Students of Std.VIII & Std. IX participated in the Secondary Science Exhibition organized by the Education Dept. at Badlapur, from 23rd to 26th August, 2012. 33 students from Crescent school participated in the 23rd Thane Mayor Marathon Competition. Maths Competition was held from Class IV to IX on 6th Sept., 2012. Three students (under 14) and one (under 17) participated in the Table Tennis competition organized by the District Sports Organization. Cleanliness Drive was held in the school and a rally was taken out the same day by students of Class VII–IX, to make the local people aware of cleanliness and hygiene. Medical check-up was organized on 24th and 25th September for all the students in the school. It was facilitated by a team of doctors from MESCO, Wockhardt Foundation, optometrist from Kalsekar Hospital and doctor parents from the school. We are grateful to them.

12 students participated in the Inter-School Throw Ball matches held on 27th and 28th Sept.2012 organized at New English High School, Mith Bunder,Thane.

Orbituary

We lost Mr. Firoj Mulani, our Marathi Teacher on 25th September, 2012. Mr. Mulani had served the school for over 7 years. May Allah grant him the highest abode.

RC Mahim Municipal School: We have appointed a new Co-ordinator for RC Mahim School, four teachers in the Secondary Section, three for the D.Ed. College in addition to three teachers for the extra coaching classes (for Std. VIII until Std. X). On 5th September, Teachers' Day was celebrated; Urdu writing Competition was organized; while on 14th September Hindi Divas was celebrated.

Vocational Training Centres: Final exams of MESCO Education Society's Vocational Training Centre, Mumbra for all courses were held from 25th – 28th August and practical exams from 28th Aug. – 1st Sept. 2012.

New batches have commenced from 25th Sept. 2012; and we have a total enrolment of 149 students. A/C & Refrigeration Course, is a new course added this year.

October 2012

Ms. Elizabeth Smeloff, a volunteer from UK, has started teaching spoken English to the students of Vocational Training Centre, as well as conducting separate classes for our Deeniyat and PT teachers, and another for the first three toppers of classes V-IX. Our teacher teaching the Beautician Course is scheduled to attend a full day session on training of Trainers being conducted by Godrej at their factory at Vikhroli on 8th October, 2012. Elizabeth will be with us after 4 months.

Nursery Schools:

The enrolment of all 12 Nursery schools put together stands at 293 close to our preferred optimal average of 25 per class. Field Trips for experiential Learning were completed in most Nursery Schools. Dental check up was conducted this far in 3 of the 12 Nursery Schools and will be taken up shortly in other schools as well.

The 44th Annual General Meeting of MESCO and 35th AGM of MESCO Education Society were both held on Sunday, 16th September, 2012 at Crescent English High School Hall, Kausa.

Ms. Elizabeth Smeloff taking English Speaking Classes for the students from our MES Vocational Training Centre at Crescent

English High School at Kausa.

MESCO and MESCO Education Society’s Board Members at the Annual General Meeting held on 16th September, 2012

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All contributions to MESCO & MES may be made by Crossed Cheque / DD / Money Order Drawn in favour of “MESCO” or“MESCO Education Society” respectively; both are exempt under Section 80G of IT Act.

Registered Address: Natalwala Building, 110, V.S. Marg, Mahim, Mumbai - 400 016. Office Timings on all working days: Mon to Sat 9 am to 5 pmCompiled and Edited by: Dr. M.A. Khatkhatay Tel. No. 2444 1442 / 2640 5008 Telefax: 2444 8637 / 2640 5012

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All views expressed in MESCO News belong to the author. The Organization need not necessarily subscribe to them.We invite your suggestions and comments on MESCO News.

RELAY CONTINUES .....RELAY CONTINUES

MESCO's family grows with each passing year, but even more importantly the children who were students of yesteryears come back to shoulder, share and contribute their time and help sponsor various projects of MESCO in all the three fields of Education, Medical support and poverty alleviation.

In the last quarter Mr. Kazi Muneeb, an ex-student donated Rs.34,000/- as general donation; many of ex-students contributed their Zakat totaling to over Rs.10 lacs; while some ex-students now professionals in their own right sponsored students under the EAS (Educational Adoption Scheme), HCES (High Cost Education Scheme), monthly Ration Support for BPL families, sponsored Sewing Machines; quite a few are contributing time as members of the different Portfolio Committees, Sub-Committee and even Executive Committee; not to forget the initiative taken by a few ex-students to form an informal group of MESCOites, the latter spent one Sunday, at Mega Mall Jogeshwari during Ramadan on 5th August, 2012 spreading word about what MESCO stands for.

MESCOites propagating MESCO’s schemes at Mega Mall at Jogeshwari on Sunday, 5th August, 2012

We are in the process of getting MESCO registered as a Charity in the UK with the help of Mr. Khalid Sofi, Solicitor and partner of M/s. Johns & Saggar Solicitors, London.This year as each year, we have 2 MSW students from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 14 PG DBM students from ITM Business School; and for the first time 5 students from Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work, for their field placement with MESCO.

The following students completed their education and have now joined the world of work:

Mr. Liyakat Mujawar is currently completing his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry Wageningen University, in Netherlands.Mr. Naved Shaikh completed his BE (Computers) with a score of 78% in 2012 and is currently working with Oracle Financial Solution Service as Associate Consultant.

Mr. Suhail Shaikh completed Aircraft Maintainance Engg. and now works for Jet Airways at Mumbai Airport.

Mr. Tauseef Ahmed completed his MBA in 2010 and is currently employed with Landmark Group in their Retail Dept. as Manager at Damam, Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Rakesh Yadav completed his BE (Computers) and joined Vistar System P. Ltd., as Trainee Engineer in their Software Development Dept.

Mr. Gulam Jilani completed his BE (Computers) in 2012 with a score of 70% and has been selected by Infosys Ltd.

Mr. Jaffar Ali Pathan who had completed his BE (Electrical) way back in 2003 with a score of 70% has moved to Edmonton Canada and works for Wesley Parsons as Specialist.

Mr. Kedarnath More completed his BE (Mech.) in 2012 and has been recruited by Toyo India Engg. Ltd. asTrainee Engineer in their Project Dept.

Mr. Suhail Pathan completed his B.Sc. (Hospitality Science) this year (2012) with an impressive 71% and has been recruited by Trident in their Housekeeping Dept.

EMPLOYMENT NEWS

FORTHCOMING EVENTS=We are shifting our new administrative office from the

present premises, Sayeed House at Cadel Road to G-2 Udyog Bhavan off Tulsi Pipe Road, near Mahim Railway Station.

=5th EAS Milap programmes are to be held on Sundays, 4th November and 2nd December, 2012 at 10 a.m.

=Annual Function of our 12 Nursery School (Angels' Paradise) and Fund Raising event will be held on Sunday,

Nursery School Students at a Dental Check-up held on 15th August, 2012 organized with the support of Dr. Afshan Laheji with

7 Team Members from Indian Dental Assocation

You may support these Nursery Schools by giving

advertisements in the Souvenir being printed for

raising funds at the time of their Annual Day

scheduled to be held on 16th December 2012