How to Help
Help in any way you can. Even a little gesture goes a long way.
- Give an Annual Scholarship:
- Give a Magazine Subscription
- Buy Books for the Library:
For the 2008-2009 academic year, a scholarship at Konkan Education Trust Schools covers full tuition and mid-day meals. A scholarship cost Rs 5000 (~ 125 USD). Imagine, $125 supports a student to attend an academically excellent school in Kumta and includes a nutritious vegetarian meal, freshly prepared on the premises. I have eaten there and it is excellent!
Send a check for Rs 5000 directly to the Shanbhag Scholarship Fund at the Konkan Education Trust. The trust is a not-for-profit organization registered in India. You will receive a receipt directly from the Trust.
Shanbhag Scholarship Fund
Konkan Education Trust
Attention: Mr Murlidhar Prabhu
Vidyagiri, Kumta 581 343
Karnataka, INDIA
If you are an Indian (NRI) residing anywhere else in the world, you can send a check for the equivalent dollars directly to the Trust. May I ask you to add about $10 more to the dollar amount to cover bank charges and exchange rate fluctuations. Extra funds remains in the Trust and supports partial scholarships, or used to waive food costs for poor families.
If you are a non-Indian, the trust does not have governmental permission to accept donations from foreigners. You can mail a check to me (address below) and I will forward the equivalent funds to the trust. You will receive a receipt from the Trust. Please contact me at the address below.
You can subscribe to a magazine for delivery to the school library. The students appreciate reading general knowledge magazines and the teachers also use them as teaching aids.
Send subscription to:
Saraswati Library
Konkan Education Trust
Attention: Mr Murlidhar Prabhu
Vidyagiri, Kumta 581 343
Karnataka, INDIA
We are currently developing a list of books that you could purchase directly from book sellers in Mumbai and have them shipped to the School Library. Please contact me for more details.
Contact Details:
Arun Shanbhag
Trustee, Konkan Education Trust
arunshanbhag at gmail
US mailing address:
32 Chatham St
Arlington, MA 02474-2008
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Would be supporting a child this year.
Please let me know whom to contact to be updated / posted about academic progress of the supported child.
I must say your work is awesome
Hi Bharat, Thank you for your support and
Enjoyed talking to you.
Best Wishes,
Arun,
What is the address that US citizens ( also POIs) can mail their checks?
You indicated “You can mail a check to me and I will forward” but I could not locate the local US address
/Suri
Hi Suri:
Thank you for considering to support a child. If you are a person of indian origin (broadly speaking) you can still mail the check directly to the Konkan Education Trust.
My mailing address in the US is:
32 Chatham St
Arlington, MA 02474
I will update the page as well.
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