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About FoC

ABOUT US

Friends of Children (F0C) was founded in 2003 by a group of individuals with a dream to lend a helping hand to society. The underlying objective was to reach out to deserving youth using education as a medium to help them grow as strong individuals with an opportunity for a sustainable livelihood. What an incredible journey it has been...8 years and going strong.

Our core objective is still the same – “Empowering through Education”. FoC sponsors higher education as well as vocational education for meritorious students subsequent to their initial school years. At present we do not accept applications for sponsorship below standard 10.

From 26 students in 2003 we now have around 350 students across the greater Maharashtra region. Our activities have also widened to include a number of complimentary areas in addition to financial support, such as provision of textbooks, trainer camps & skill sessions, mentor & guide networks, Spoken English training sessions etc. We continue to grow and evolve.

There are many ways that you can help –please check the "How Can I help - Important Donor information" link for additional details.

Every child has a DREAM & YOU have the POWER to fulfill it.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

FoC Library Project

Dear Friends,

With the successful completion of handing out fees to 150 students on Jan 14th, FoC is now moving on to the next imperative need.....a Library ....

We plan to have Libraries in 4 separate locations ( 2 in Pune & 1 in Narayangaon & 1 in Junnar) to stock various books that our students could have access to.

By having our own library of books , FoC would be saving the expense of buying books every semester and also building up a stock and if possible opening more libraries in further locations around Pune.

The library will be used by 600 students in Pune (250 FoC Students + 350 SWA students) and above 1000 students from 6 different schools and colleges in Junnar & Narayangaon.

The requirements are as follows...

1. Any Books - Academic , Non Academic, Management books, Stories, Entrance Exam Books, MBA , CAT, CET, MCA, Engineering (any branch), Commerce, Computers or anything which will be useful for the students in ENGLISH , HINDI & MARATHI
We request each of you to make a special effort in collecting books, You can put a notice in your office, Inform your colleagues, put notice in colleges, put notice in your housing society and let us know once you have a carton full. Our team will then have it collected.

2 Cupboards to store books

3. A keyboard and a monitor ( we have a CPU available ) / Tally software for accounting / Library Mgmt S/w / MS Office

4. If any of you prefer to give a cash donation to buy books or If you can buy books and give us, we welcome it as we have budgeted about Rs 25000 towards buy new books.

5. We also need a old mobile phone for the use of the proposed Librarian (would be a FoC student)

The aim is to get the Library started by mid March. So please extend your help as always to make this a success.

Please contact Venky @ 9890393132 or Aparna @ 9890093187
Thanks
FoC Team

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