Sponsor a Child in Bodh Gaya Through the Maitreya Project
by Danny Fisher
This from the Maitreya Project in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India:
- Dear Friend of Maitreya Universal Education School,
- by direct debit .. $20 per month
- for 1 year … $240
- a whole class for one month … $500
- a whole class for one year (11 months) … $6,000
As well as knowing deserving children are benefiting from your generosity, you will receive: - a fact sheet and photo of your nominated child
- the school’s electronic newsletter The Good Heart
- a yearly report about the progress of your sponsored child and the school
Other ways to support the children’s education:- Sponsor nutritious lunches for 1 year:
- for 1 child … $80
- for a whole class … $2,000
Sponsor books for 1 year: - for 1 child … $20
- for a whole class … $500
Sponsor school uniforms (shirt/pants/sweater for boys and blouse/skirt/sweater for girls) - for one child … $20
- for a whole class … $500
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Please note: sponsorship amounts are shown in US Dollars. All currencies will be automatically converted to the equivalent dollar amount at the time of the donation.
Thank you for your kindness!
- for 1 child … $80
We realise this is a difficult economic time for all of us – and that includes our extraordinary school and its 500 students in Bodhgaya, India.
We are writing to you urgently because the school depends on your kindness and generosity to function during this time of global economic trouble.
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Until the last few months we have managed to cover the costs with about 300 individual Child Sponsorships and further donations from major sponsors, but due to the global economic crisis sponsorship levels have dramatically fallen since 2008, for example:
- Only 30 out of 300 Child Sponsors have renewed in 2009.
Even following our April ’09 appeal only 22 new Child Sponsors have come onboard.
Although we are doing our utmost to minimise costs, we remain very far short of our requirement and feel we have to advise all our supporters that we face some difficult and dire decisions without your help.
The cost of a Child Sponsorship is minimal when compared to the cost of sending a child to school almost anywhere else in the world.
Please, if you have not done so already, kindly reconsider and donate whatever you can to assist us so we can continue providing education to the children of Bodhgaya in Bihar, the poorest part of India.
Sponsor the education of a child:
Donate here.
