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our donors get 50% exemption on their contribution.

We have also entered the India Giving Challenge 2010 Event jointly organized by Giveindia and Guide Star, where we are

th trailing behind at the 40 position, (at the time of writing this editorial), we appeal to our donors to give Rs.550/- (one unit) to MESCO through this event and if thousands of you donors help us, then we could be among the top 10 and receive a bonus which could be as large as 10 lacs at the first position.

The photo alongside is our school building, which has become a landmark in the locality.

It is purely Allah's wish and contribution of so many individuals over the years that made it possible for us to shift the children on 2nd August, 2010 from the old premises into the new building, (which has a 42,000 sq.ft. built space). While we thank Allah for helping us complete the school construction and making it functional; we have in that sense completed the Computer Lab, Science Lab, School Office, HM's Office; we have just carried the furniture and fixtures from the previous premises in terms of some facilities, these include the Library, Staff Room, Store. There are others which have names designating them, but nothing inside, these need to be totally furnished and equipped such as Audio-Visual Room, Indoor Sports Room, Language Laboratory, Counselling Room, First Aid Room and Hall; God willing, we should be able to get these ready before the new academic year, possibly before the beginning of the new calendar.

MESCO has received accreditation from Credibility Alliance, an NGO that looks at processes, practices and accountability in the NGO sector and allots accreditation (certification).We have also received a letter from the IT Dept. regarding permanency of our 80G registration, where under the said section

qCollege Level Educational Aid Disbursement will be held on stSunday, 31 October, 2010 at R.C. Mahim School.

qPersonality Development Camp for EAS students will be thheld from 8th until 11 November, 2010 at J.J. Hospital

Nursing Association premises, Malad.th thqEAS Milap programme is to be held on 14 & 28 November,

2010 at RC Mahim Municipal School premises from 10 a.m. onwards; on these days our sponsors meet the students they are sponsoring.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

India Giving Challenge - 2010MESCO is participating in “India Giving Challenge-2010” (IGC-2010), an annual fundraising event organized by Guide Star in collaboration with GiveIndia, during which all NGOs registered with them are invited to put an appeal for funds on their Website which will reach a wider donor base. During this 40 day event which

th thstarted on 8 September, 2010 and will last until 20 October, 2010, top 10 NGOs receiving maximum donations through GiveIndia will be entitled for a matching grant from GiveIndia.In order to cater the needs of aspiring school and college students who desperately need your support in order to continue their studies; we appeal you to contribute generously during this event to MESCO by visiting MESCO's iGive Page:

You as our donor of long standing are requested to participate in this event so as to boost our collection. The unit contribution (minimum) we seek from one donor is Rs.500 (and you could contribute in multiple units) so that MESCO could be one of the top 10 and God willing even the topmost fund raiser, and be eligible to receive matching contribution which then could be Rs.10 lacs.

Please note that any donations given during this event should be in the name of GiveIndia, who will subsequently transfer it to MESCO. The more you contribute will attract higher matching grants for MESCO.

If our donors in Mumbai want to donate by cheque we can arrange to pick it up from your residence/office, so please call on the telephone Nos. given below.

http://www.giveindia.org/give/pledgepage/MESCO

Patron & Life Members: Dr. Maneka Mukund Patil, Dr. Muznah M. Kapdi, Mr. Mubarak Kapdi, enrolled as Patron Members; while Mrs. Zakia Khatib, Mr. Ashok S Gajra, Mr. Sajid Ali, Mr. Naveen J. Patel, Ms. Nargis Allahbaksh enrolled as Life members.

Newspaper Collection: We have grossed around Rs.5.22 lacs this last quarter (July-Sept., 2010)

Donation towards Crescent School construction at Kausa: Rs.14,21,000/- during this quarter.

Corpus Donation: We need to gradually build a sufficient corpus so that our overheads get covered from the income of this Corpus. Many of our well wishers have responded and over this quarter we have received the following amounts: M/s New Asian Construction Co. Rs.10,000/-, Dr. (Ms.) Nasreen Fazalbhoy Rs.10,000/-, Mr. Khan Amjad Rs.10,000/-, Mr. Moorad Fazalbhoy Rs.10, 000/-, Mr. Arif Munjee Rs.2,00,000/-, Mr. Abbas Barodawala 10,000/- Mr. Shoukat Ali Mukadam Rs.50,000/-

Donations received for Nursery Schools: Mr. M.A. Mubeenuddin, donated Rs.1,00,000 towards Nursery School deficit for the school sponsored by him.

Zakat: By the grace of Almighty this year we have improved on our last year's Zakat (collection during Ramadan) by 30%.

Mobile Clinic Sponsorship: Rs.1,49,915/- was received this quarter towards deficit for the Thane Mobile Clinic from Valli Charitable Trust taking their total contribution to Rs.4,49,745/-; we have also received annual sponsorship of Rs.5.95 lacs from Mr. Farooque Alimahomed towards the deficit of City Mobile Clinic-1 that serves Wadala & Kurla.

Fixed Charitable Dispensary: We have received Rs.18,10,804/- from Mr. Shaheed Rahim towards premises and cost of deficit for a year for a Fixed Charitable Dispensary. The premises are being finalized.

Sponsorship for Sewing Machines: We are really grateful to our donors who responded so magnanimously to our appeal for sponsorship of Sewing Machines; we received sponsorship from 30 donors for 69 machines. Due to lack of space we are not able to print the names of all these donors and we hope they will excuse us for the same.

EAS Sponsorship: EAS sponsorship of Rs.15,000/- p.a. under the EAS scheme was received from the following benefactors (taking the total cases sponsored for this year to 234 of the total 325 students budgeted under the scheme):

Mr. Arif Munjee, Ms. Sania Imtiyaz Surve, Mr. Iqbal Chagla, Ms. Tasnim Bano, Dr. (Ms.) Yasmeen Lukmani, Mr. A.H.Tobaccowala, Mr. Aziz Dawood Agboatwala, Ms. Shamim Aziz Agboatwala, Mr. Rizwan Khopatkar, Mr. Arif Mehtar, Mr. Aslam B. Mehtar, Ms Zahabiya H. Officewala, Mr. Sami A.R. Modak, Ms. Meher A. Khan, Mr. Abbas Ali Gabula, Mr. Shahnawaz Nakhwa, Mr. Shameel Basith, Mr. Parvez A. Maniar, Mr. Sarfaraz Agboatwala, Mr. Rizwan Sajan, Mr. M. Sayeed, Mr. Dawood N. Vohra, Mr. Mulla Nizamuddin, Mr. Abdul Majid Khan, Mr. M.A. Shaikh, Mr. Faiz M. Shaikh, Ms Zarana Ahmed, Mrs. Maleik Dingankar, Mr. Murtuza Tejani, Mr. S.H. Khan, Mr. Altaf Janvekar, Mr. Asif Ansari, Mr. Shabbir Vilatra, Ms. Shakeela Sayed, Mr. Afaq Ansari, Mr. Afaq Choonawala, Mr. Shahid Thaika, Mr. Yusuf Shah, Ms. Zubeda Khan, Mrs. Contractor, Mr. Shaikh Kamal Pasha, Mr. Fawzi Khatib, Ms. Shahana Khatib, Mr. Sameer Ahmed, Mr. Farhaan Makba, Mr. Yusuf Shaikh, Mr. Yusuf

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We are grateful to our ex-students who have been helping us in numerous ways.

We received around 9 lacs this year by way of Zakat from around 70 of our past students.

Some of our ex-students have also contributed through “India Giving Challenge - 2010” Event and more are expected from them till the end of the Event.

RELAY CONTINUES .....Some of our students who supported us

HOLDING MESCO’S HANDS

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Bhagat, Mr. Johar Sham, Mr. G.K. Rangarajan, Mr. Moinuddin Shaikh, Mrs. Haseena Wahedna, M/s. Bai Khatijabai Trust, Mr. Aziz N. Nasir, Mr. Imran I. Khan, Ms. Nafisa Miyajiwala, Mr. M.A. Majeed, Mr. Faisal Hijazi, M/s. Global Trade House, Ms. Sheema Ahmed, Ms. Parveen Retiwala, Mr. Asif Mubeenuddin, Mr. Azeemqaisar Mamaparo, Mr. Shoaib Ansari, Mrs. Tabassum Hashmi, Mr. Habib Fakih, Mrs. Shabnoor Fakih and Mr. Jamilur-Rehman Ansari.

HCELS Sponsorship: We have received Sponsorship for HCELS from Mr. A.H. Tobaccowala (2), Mr. Uwais Patni (1), M/s Rogay Charities (20).

Interest Amount: We received Rs.46,593/- from Mr. T. Patel, Mr. F. Kalsekar, Mr. A. Majid Khan, Mr. Nawab Ali, Mr. Fazlur Rehman, Mrs. M. I. Ravi, Mr. Javed Farooqui & Ms. Sana Pathan.

Ration Support: In the quarter we received sponsorship for Ration Support from Ms. Saira Nainar (1), Mr. Faisal Wahedna (100), Mr. Arif Mehtar (1), Ms. Meher Khan (1), Mrs. Maleik Dingankar (1), Ms. Shahnaz Maniar (1), Mr. Zakir Hussain Shaikh (1), Ms. Fatema Killedar (1), Mr. M.N. Killedar (1), Mrs. Contractor (2), Mr. Abdul Rehman Ansari (1), Mr. Javed Hasan Mahadik (1), Mr. Azeemqaisar Mamaparo (3), Mr. Feroze Kuraishi (1) and Mr. Minaz Khan (1) (No. of families sponsored mentioned in parenthesis).

MESCO is currently providing Ration Support to 247 families every month.

One of 733 beneficiaries who received Educational Aid on 18th July, 2010 during Disbursement Programme held at R.C. Mahim School premises.

EDUCATION

Scholarships

Educational Aid (School Level): Educational Aid (School level) disbursement was done from the R.C. Mahim School premises on 18.7.10 when 733 students collected their scholarships amounting to Rs.16,40,800. 306 students who were not able to collect these will collect their amounts on 31.10.2010.

The Educational Aid (College Level): Disbursements for around st600 students is to be done on 31 October and for which we

eagerly await funds from Muslim Aid, UK which has been our main partner in this programme.

Tech. Courses & Short Term Vocational Courses:16 students under the former and 11 under the latter category have been sanctioned scholaships, with no pending cases in hand.

EAS: We wish to thank our sponsors under the Educational Adoption Scheme for sending their contributions during this last quarter which has enabled us to provide sponsorship for 234 of the 325 students under the scheme this year; we still require to get the remaining 92 students sponsored. 270 of these were sponsored last year and we are requesting last year’s sponsors the same, while we appeal to our well wishers to help us reach our target of 100% sponsored programme. Sponsorship amount is Rs.15,000/- per annum.

HCELS: Under this scheme, we had 157 cases carried forward from previous year, while of 106 new cases registered 71 cases have been sanctioned, the total case load under this scheme expected this year is 220. We have so far been able to have the support of 10 sponsors and need sponsors for the remaining 151 students. As mentioned earlier a sponsor can contribute Rs.50,000/- annually for 6 years and from the seventh year the repayments coming in will take care of one student each year thereafter; alternatively a one time (Corpus) donation of Rs.3 lacs towards this scheme will ensure, a year later that one student will be provided a loan scholarship for 6 years and from the seventh year one scholarship will emanate from the repayment as above and another as return on investment; in the latter case every seventh year an additional scholarship will get added.

Loan Repayment: Ms. Asma Satvilkar, who was offered a loan for her B.Ed. has completely repaid the same; Mr. Zameer Gori who had taken loan for DOEACC has also fully repaid the same in July while Mr. Manyar M. Ishaque and Mr. Shaikh Saeed, both BE (Mech) and Mr. Iraqi M. Asif, BE (Instr), Mr. Shaikh Nawaz, BE (IT) and Ms. Penta Namrata, BE (EXTC) have all repaid their loans fully in August; similarly Dr. (Ms) Paiker Sayed, MBBS and Dr. Jamal Ahmed, BHMS have also repaid their loans completely in September, 2010. During this quarter (July - Sept. 2010) we have received Rs.11,20,824/-. as loan repayments.

Mr. Shariq Khan completed his Dip. Elect. Engg. secured 87.5% was topper not only in his college but also topped Mumbai (MSBTE).

Ms. Namita Repe scored 73.67% at TYBA (History), topped Ruia College; she plans to attempt UPSC.

Mr. Abu Sufiyan scored 74% at T.Y.B.Com.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES:

Dharavi Training Centre: At the Dharavi Centre we have been working in collaboration with Women's India Trust for the last two years; in the present batch we have 14 students; while in the previous 3 batches, 40 students have completed the course. The other two courses that of Mehndi & Beautician (both 3 months courses) are being conducted independently by MESCO. In the last two batches which ended in July 2010 we

have trained students respectively in Beauty Culture and Mehndi application.

Mumbra Centre: At Mumbra Centre which is being run in collaboration with Fr. Agnel we have completed 2 batches each of the year long Electrician and Beautician courses and 32 students have been trained in the respective skills. While 12 of the students have started working as professional beauticians, one of these on the sales side and 3 are self employed; in case of the Electrician 25 of them have been employed, 5 with MSEB contractors and 20 with other contractors.

Most of these were unemployable last year, but now the lowest salary anybody is drawing is Rs.4,000/-, while the highest is drawing Rs.16,000/- p.m. From among those students who finished last year, the lowest who works with a contractor is drawing Rs.3,500/- while the highest is drawing Rs.15,000/-.

We have added one more course this year that of Garment manufacture where we hope to enroll another 30 students. We are trying with every passing year to improve our self sufficiency and minimize deficits, we realize that maybe three to four years down the line, we would be able to make the courses self sufficient, but for the present we invite some well meaning people to provide us the deficit for these courses. Our total deficits on the Mumbra Centre this year would be Rs.8,54,000/- on the three courses put together that of Electrician, Beautician & Garment manufacture, and this deficit will provide the skill training for a total of 118 students, that works to an average deficit per student of Rs.7,237/-.

NURSERY SCHOOLS: From the total No. of 534 students enrolled in our 15 Nursery schools as many as 409 got admission into a total of 44 good schools of the areas.

thOn 25 September, 2010 Mrs. Zahida Shaikh, Resource Teacher attended a workshop on Creativity organized by Indian Association for Pre-school Education (IAPE). MESCO is a member of IAPE.

This year we have a total of 484 students in 13 of our Nursery schools (of which 4 are run in double shifts). Every year we seek sponsors to plug deficits of each of our schools. We had all 15 of our Nursery Schools sponsored last year. The sponsors of our Nursery Schools were FERAS, M/s. Parthenon Group, Creative Against Poverty, Dr. Gustavo Mana, Mr. A.H. Tobaccowala, FLAME and Mr. A. Jasdanwala. We have so far received sponsorship for 3 of our Nursery Schools for the current year 2010-11.

R.C. MAHIM MUN. SCHOOL: Prof. M. Farhan Makba, Gen. Secretary, MESCO Education Society has been conducting Leaders of Tomorrow Project under the aegis of Dr. P. N. Singh Foundation.

3 teachers were appointed on MESCO rolls to take classes at R.C. Mahim Municipal School.

CRESCENT ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL: 8 of our students went to thmeet NASA astronauts at Nehru Science Centre on 9 July, 2010.

PTA elections, were held as well as Office bearers elected on th24 July, 2010. PTA General Body Meeting was organized in the

school hall with the Management representatives (Trustees). 8 of our Std. IV and 5 of our Std. VII students appeared for the Govt. Scholarship exams, and all of them cleared the exams, the highest percentages scored were 68.66% and 52.66% respectively.

30 students from our Secondary section participated in the Monsoon Marathon organized by the Thane Municipal

thCorporation on 18 July, 2010.

During the quarter, July to Sept. we have assisted:

88 patients under the High Cost Medical Assistance;128 patients under the General Medical Assistance.

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What some of our ex-students have to say about their association with MESCO

Mr. Abdul Sabeer Choudhary who works for Kores India Ltd., says, “MESCO provided financial aid to complete my studies, without which I could not be a software professional”.

Mr. Uwesh Mewawala completed his Computer Engg. in 2010 presently employed with Capgemini Ltd., says, “MESCO is really a Chirag in my life; in whatever position I am today is because of MESCO helped me in developing my personality and boosting my confidence”.Mr. Ashish Jadhav completed his Electronics Engg. in 2010 and works for Enercon India Ltd., says, “MESCO has been the most important part of my life”.Mr. Ravish Gulam Mohammed who completed his MBBS last year with an impressive score of 68% says of MESCO: “It removed the burden of college fees from my parents and me because of which I could concentrate on my studies”.Ms. Namita Repe has completed her BA with History and hopes to be an IAS Officer, “MESCO has helped me in many ways. I want to become an IAS officer and want to work with MESCO for the betterment of our society and our country.”

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?Rs. 1,00,000/- a year, would help sponsor (one batch of) a Nursery School in a poor locality. (Nursery School)

?Rs. 50,000/- a year and ensure professional education for a meritorious student. (HCELS)

?Rs. 15,000/- provides dry ration to a widow and her family for a whole year. (Ration Support)

?Rs. 15,000/- per year helps a meritorious child continue his/her education. (Educational Adoption Scheme)

?Rs. 5,000/- enables us to provide a Singer sewing machine to a destitute woman in order to make her self reliant.

?Rs. 4,000/- a year will cover a child’s school / college fees. (Education Aid)

?You can help in any of these activities by setting up a Corpus (dedicated to the memory of a near one) and build it up over the years. Establish a Sawaab-e-Jaariyah!

?You can send your Donations / Zakat. (Pl. see Page 1)

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OCTOBER 2010

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We are proud that many of our students who completed their courses in 2010 have entered the world of work, here are some of these:

Mr. Mawani Brijesh and Mr. Shaikh Nazim completed BE while Ms. Rohini Katke completed her B.Sc. (IT) and they have been employed by Tata Consultancy Services.

Mr. Khan Tariq and Mr. Parekh Chirag both recently completed their degree in Engg. and have been employed by Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co.

Mr. Syed Burhan too likewise, finished his Aircraft Maintenance Engg. and has been employed by Jet Airways at Mumbai Airport.

Mr. Shaikh Azhar completed his BE (Mech) and has been recruited by BOSCH Ltd., at Nashik.

Mr. Shaikh Abu Sufiyan did his B.Com and has found employment with Giandano Fashions India P. Ltd.

Mr. Dudhankar Sudhir has joined Siyarams P. Ltd., Mr. Satish Gargote has started working with Vidyalankar Institute of Techonolgy as a Lecturer.

Mr. Javed Ali Pathan completed his BE (Mech) and has been employed by Prijai Heat Exchangers P.Ltd.

Ms. Saima Khan completed her B.Sc. (IT) and has been employed as Software Developer by Data Comp. WebTech. Pvt. Ltd.

Ms. Sayyad Shagufta has done B.Sc. (Comp. Sc.) and now works with Edu Comp. Solutions.

EMPLOYMENT NEWS

INTERACTIONS

Mobile Clinics; Mobile Clinic City I (serving Wadala-Kurla area) served 5998 patients, while Mobile Clinic City 2 (serving Goregaon-Malad area) served 4148 patients and Thane Mobile Clinic 5697 patients; between the 3 Mobile Clinics total of 15,843 patients were served in the quarter.

thOn 11 July, 2010 Trade Test and Interviews of Sewing machine applicants was conducted and 16 of these were selected and Singer Sewing machines were distributed to these from RC

thMahim Municipal School premises on 8 August, 2010.

406 Iftar packets (195 of these were sponsored by Muslim Aid, thUK) and remaining 55 by MESCO, were distributed on 8 August,

2010.

247 families are being provided Ration Support each month from 13 locations spread across Mumbai & Navi Mumbai at a cost of Rs. 2,97,600/- per month.

GENERAL AID

Mr. Niyaz Nakhwa attended a meeting of NGOs regarding Govt. Scholarships organized by Maharashtra Minorities Commission

stat Anjuman Islam Premises, CST on 1 July, 2010.

Two Zakat Get togethers were organized on 25th July and 1st August, 2010 respectively at Bandra.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has sent 4 of its MSW students for their field work with MESCO. We are working out a project on mentorship between our past and present students.

Dr. M. A. Khatkhatay attended a workshop on Regional Evaluation Outreach at S.P. Jain Institute of Management Studies on 15.09.2010.

Orientation programme for newly inducted EAS students was thheld on 19 September 2010.

MESCO has participated in India Giving Challenge Event (see box on the first page)

ITM Business School will be deputing some MBA students to MESCO as a part of 1 month internship (field work).

Iftar Packets Distribution Programme was held with the support of Muslim Aid, UK at Mahim, on Sunday, 8th August, 2010 during which 250 beneficiaries were provided with Food Packets for month of Ramadan.