This Mission gives wings to the dreams of underprivileged kids

KOLKATA: When Safina Khatun cracked the West Bengal JEE (medical) on Thursday, her neighbourhood in a South 24-Parganas village broke into celebrations. Daughter of a small-time tailor at Chatla Kalikapur, Safina, whose family battled financial crisis, refused to give up her studies and finally triumphed, ranking 77th in the entrance test. Safina was among 84 girls from the minority community - most of them first-generation learners from underprivileged background - who were guided by Al-Ameen Mission into clearing the medical entrance test.
"We thank Al-Ameen Mission for shaping the future of my daughter, Ajijun Nahar Khatun. Had it not been for their financial help, guidance and motivation, we could have never dreamt so big for her," said Reshma Parvin, mother of another successful candidate. Besides the girls, 358 boys from the school also cracked the exam, some of them, like Saifula Sheikh (40th rank) and Sheikh Hassan (105th rank), came from remote villages. Al-Ameen Mission, a chain of school, has been working towards changing the lives of minority community students, especially in Bengal, providing quality education and holding special classes for joint entrance exams.
Apart from 50 schools in Bengal, the mission has set up its units in Ranchi, Patna, Boxanagar (Tripura) and Howly in Assam. One of its students here is Rizia Parvin from Kamarpukur. When the meritorious girl got through Al-Ameen Mission on clearing a test, her parents did not know how to pay for her education. But the school offered her free education and guided her in such a way that the wage earner's daughter will now study medicine. "With my meagre income, I could not afford my daughter's educa tion. The school came to our rescue.I am over the moon that my daughter will be a doctor," said father Sheikh Abdul Rehman, who has been rendered physically challenged after an accident.
Razia Sultan, daughter of a bidi roller from Doriapur in Malda, who has secured 82nd rank on the medical list, was adopted by the school when she was in Class VIII. Razia is now looking to rescue her father from the grips of penury . Similar was the course of life for Sunitaz Parvin of Hazaratpur, Malda. "I want to do well in medical college and make my parents proud," she said.
"We are proud of the kids. We aim not only to provide them with good education but also shape their career. It is good to see the rising graph of girls getting into medical colleges," said Al-Ameen Mission general secretary M Nurul Islam.
An elated Nazifa Nasrin from Ratua in Malda, who can't believe her success, said, "I wish more parents from my community will enrol their daughters in schools and give them the chance to live their dreams."