“I always felt that education is the real gift you can gift to any child. We can give clothes, we can give food and we can give them lots of gifts, but all of them are very temporarily but education is something which will transform their lives, will make them independent and they in turn transform the lives of their family members or their friends circle or whoever they get in contact with,” said VVS Laxman
Terming education as a ‘real gift’, former India batsman VVS Laxman said it can not only transform the lives of children but enable them in transforming lives of others also.
Instead finding shortcomings of the government, he said one should come forward and help in improving the educational facilities at government schools.
Laxman was present at an event of NGO Project 511, an initiative of Hyderabad Round Table 8 (HRT8) which announced Food for Change, a charity dinner as part of Daan Utsav, scheduled on October 9.
Excerpts from VVS Laxman’s views:
‘Education can transform lives’
“I always felt that education is the real gift you can gift to any child. We can give clothes, we can give food and we can give them lots of gifts, but all of them are very temporarily but education is something which will transform their lives, will make them independent and they in turn transform the lives of their family members or their friends circle or whoever they get in contact with,” Laxman said
Members of Project 511 are working to change the future achievers of this country
- He said, “I have known Project 511 and the work they are doing with government schools in Hyderabad and others districts of Telangana.”
- “There is no better satisfaction than giving. What our country requires is not selfish people but we require selfless people. The members of Project 511, they are inspiration and they are working to change the future achievers of this country, who are the underprivileged children studying in government schools,” said Laxman.
Need to appreciate the efforts of government:
- “While we should appreciate the efforts of the government, we should also understand that it is not easy for the government to take care of lot of their initiatives,” he said
- “I always believed that instead of complaining and instead of always looking at shortcomings of the government it is important to come forward and help in making sure that our city, our state becomes the best,” he added
Project 511 is an NGO working to improving quality of education imparted in government schools and is now associated with 1,022 government schools
source”cnbc”