Thursday 16 November 2017

[www.keralites.net] School Master Uma Venkatachalam-Beggars are studying abroad and child Labourers are becoming Doctors

 


School Master Uma Venkatachalam-Beggars are studying abroad and child Labourers are becoming Doctors


From begging on Chennai roads...... to Italy to study automotive engineering

Jayavel, who stays in Ayanavaram, didn't go to school till the age of four. "I wasn't interested in studies, and I used to beg till I was four. Life was all about being on the streets," begins Jayavel. However, things started looking up for the youngster, when Uma Venkatachalam, who heads an NGO in Vyasarpadi, found him on the streets of Avadi, begging. It was this NGO that funded him and sent him to school. "I started going to school when I was five. The NGO arranged for the funds and I went to a school .

Jay tried to get a scholarship for the uni. After trying various universities in Japan and across the UK, he finally landed at Glyndwr University, Wrexham. By now, he was studying automotive engineering, with a specialisation course called Performance Cars Technologies. "I was petrified when I was flying to London. I was so scared about losing my visa that I'd carry it in my pocket all the time. I also found the accent very difficult initially. Life is tough there, and expensive, too. So, I took on a part time job at a store," says Jay. But not everything was hunky dory. Bad luck struck when foreign students were asked to leave UK as several colleges lost their licence. "Several foreigners were my classmates, but all of us were asked to leave. It was a disaster, as I had completed only two years of the course. So I came back to Chennai and started applying to other colleges to continue my course.

That's when I got a call from University of Turin in Italy," says the ever-optimistic Jay, who is now looking forward to completing this course.

full article in the link below

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UMA and MUTHURAM who run the Suyam Charitable Trust.




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