As the year ends, we are deeply grateful to you for your invaluable support that has helped us provide over 1600 scholarships this year to bright and talented students who want to pursue higher education but do not have the resources to fulfill their dream. In all we have provided over thirteen thousand scholarships over two decades, with three quarters of the recipients being women and over two-thirds from rural areas. By improving the access of underprivileged youth to higher education, we seek to minimize their frustration, anger and their potential drift to drugs, alcoholism and crime. Every student helped is not only a life transformed, but also an uplifting of an entire family and often of a whole community. With your continuing support, we look forward to increasing the impact by providing an increasing number of scholarships to a broader range of students, including those studying for higher professional degrees and for various Administrative services exams. We also plan to provide enhanced guidance, mentorship and leadership training to scholarship recipients, and develop alumni associations that can provide significant additional support over the coming year. In addition we aim to further augment the US scholarship program. Please consider investing in our youth’s future by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution. Your donation of $550 will support education for one student for a year. Please support as many students as you can. A regular monthly donation is equally welcome. Thank you for being an invaluable partner in this truly transformative Seva. With immense gratitude and warm regards, Manmohan Singh Kumar, Ph.D. (Cambridge) Chairman, SHDF |