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Venerable Seewalee Thero, Monk-in-Charge, of the Bodhgaya Maha Bodhi Society Monastery (Bodhgaya, India) asks for financial assistance from us. Please assist.

Venerable Seewalee writes:

The Maha Bodhi Vidyapeeth Project began in started began in started 1990 to provide education to the poor and the needy of Bodhgaya. The late Ven. Bulath Singhala Panajarma Thero, project originator, realized that a economic prosperity could only be brought about if education was widespread. At the time education was concentrated to a limited number of people.

Current student population is 165. The school runs on limited means mostly from donations. The students come to the Maha Bodhi Center and will be moving to a partially constructed school with work remaining incomplete due to financial restraints. A computer education facility is also planned because we realize that the people can progress only in this day and age if they are computer literate. A proper school can only be constructed and maintained if we receive funds and donations from people who want to make a difference in the life of the needy and underprivileged of Bodhgaya.

The population of our school consists of the poor and lower middle class people of Bodhgaya and nearby villages. The students mainly come from families that cannot afford decent education for their wards in expensive schools.

The parents are mainly people who are daily earners and cannot afford to pay fees in these schools. Hence, they enroll their wards in the Maha Bodhi because they get free education and a decent one at that. What is noteworthy is the fact that they have great enthusiasm for education and every admission period there is a great rush for the enrollment of students. But, due to our limited space and means we are not able to enroll everyone. Thus some of them have to we disappoint.

Hence, we are always on the lookout for sponsors and people with good intention who can help us in this Noble Cause so that we can impart the Gift of Knowledge to these students who are very much part of the future of the World.

For more detailed information, please view Power Point Side Presentation and Estimated Costs. Our students most gracrioualy appreciate your generosity and support.

Please help our students. Please mention under Instructions: MBVP. Any amount is a help.

Thank you.
May all beings be happy and at their ease.