Nita Ambani dons many hats as the Chairperson of DAIS, co-owner of Mumbai Indians, first lady of Corporate India and many more. This time the educationist and social worker in her have joined hands in reaching education to underprivileged and disadvantaged kids.
Although the third season of the popular Twenty20 tournament is only 17 days away, Nita’s busy supporting the underprivileged kids of five NGOs through an initiative called ‘Education For All’. Some members of her team, the Mumbai Indians, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan & Co. are actively participating in this initiative. Commercials were launched across national television channels on Sunday featuring Sachin, Bhajji and Zaheer, who appeared in 15-second commercials for the cause, but the real stars of this Mumbai Indians promo are the children who make an endearing appearance with Nita Ambani at the end.
Nita Ambani intends taking her cause to the masses just like American cycling legend Lance Armstrong did for cancer victims in 2004, the Mumbai Indians is selling blue silicone wristbands signed by Tendulkar and other greats from the team that say ‘Education For All’. Every band sold will mean some amount of money goes towards the NGOs Pratham, Ummeed, Akanksha, Teach For India and Nanhi Kali that do exemplary work in educating underprivileged children. The sale proceeds will be matched by a contribution from the Mumbai Indians’ kitty.
Nita Ambani is counting on the huge fan base her team has across the country to boost the sales, but since it is for a charitable cause, all benevolent Indians supporting other IPL teams are expected to pitch in and buy the bands as well. The educationist in Nita Ambani who believes that education is the key that unlocks the potential of every child says, “It’s a small and humble effort”. She, as an erstwhile school teacher and current Chairperson of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, has thrown open her institute, which in the evenings becomes an education centre for Akanksha’s underprivileged kids. Besides which, through the Reliance rural schools in Maharashtra and Gujarat, Nita also looks after the education of 15,000 other children.
“One of India’s big needs is for every underprivileged kid, especially the girl child, to know how to read and write,” continued Nita Ambani. “This is a cause that’s very dear to me, and Sachin, Harbhajan and Zaheer were happy to endorse it in the promo.” The sale of these ‘Education For All’ bands that are available at all Reliance and Sahakari Bhandar stores in Maharashtra is just the basic fund raiser. Nita, who sits cheering in the dug-outs whenever her team is playing, will take 120 of these kids to see every home match. She later plans to hold a special benefit match for them with her players.
I like the work in the field of giving help to educate people in whatever small way one can– and appreciate the support given by mrs. neeta ambani for the indian youth in this field.May Almighty bless.
I am myself involved in trying to help students in our vicinity. we have a small group of people who are members of the ZAHOOR MEMORIAL EDUCATION CENTRE in Daman (Union territory).
All the best wishes
M S Durwesh
As we all know that Mrs. Neeta Ambani educational have played a vital role regarding promoting of education in India especially amongst the deprived community. Our nation will never forget your contribution that you have given to us in the field of education as well as industrial development.
Further, I Would like to tell you that we are working in the field of education among the Muslim community of Jharkhand. We have launched a mission to bring hope to deprived Muslim of jharkhand to bring about 100% literacy amongst them who are still languishing behind fro mainstream. We are working in the field of education with commitment, dedication and honesty; by the grace of Almighty we have achieved the goal partially. We have been focusing on creating educational awareness basically in slum areas where the literacy rate is far less in comparison to urban areas. On the basis of our experience we have found that there are lots of children who still do not go to School/Madarsa or discontinued his/her education due to poverty. Every year lots of students become the victims of drop out only due to lack of financial assistance, even matric and intermediate pass students are unable to continue his/her education. This year we came a cross a situation where a student cracked entrance examination for IIT but due to financial problem he faced difficulties to get admission.
We find that numbers of the Muslim students who stop their education and get in to the work like motorcycle repairing, welding tailoring and embroidering etc. after middle school are in plenty. We believe that unless the socioeconomic condition and educational backwardness of our community is improved the goal of 100% literacy among our community will never be achieved.
While working in the field of education we realised that to minimize the difficulties of our students there is an urgent need to establish a system where we can save some portion of our charity amount to meet the educational requirement of our
weaker people. Keeping all the facts in our minds we have formed educational development fund with the purpose of supporting weaker student of our community to fulfill their educational requirement and to bridge the gap between student and their educational dream.
While working in the field of education this year we have recieved more than 50 applications for financial support. these applicants are failed to pay thier fees in the respective schools and unable to continue thier basic education. we can support few only due to limited amount of fun in the account of society but we are still trying to arrange some fund so that we can accmodate all the poor students in thier respective schools. we request Mrs. Neeta Ambani Bean support our mission and adopt few students under the banner of reliance charatable organization. if you need any information please mail us.
Thanks & Regards
Respected Mrs. Neeta Ambani.
First of all let me take this oppurtunity to congratulate you on many of the projects you handle and are the chaipreson which lifts the morale of many a down troden person.
Its great to see well structured business houses are getting into the act of uplifting the needy. I wish more people in India think the same way you & Mr. ambani think.Because the real truth is you cant take it up no matter how big you are.
I have a question for you , I believe you have started a home for senior citizens in Karjat under the name of Dignity Fondation. I tried to get more information on the organization but could not find the same. If it is correct could you request one of your assitance to forward me some information.
Once again keep up the good work. God bless you
Ravi