Parents of 10 little girls from poor family thought that would donate books and uniforms. But everyone was left suprised when this 69-year old beggar donated 10 Jewellery boxes containing 10 gold earrings. He told he did this to encourage girl educations.
"Girls need to be encouraged to study. They must be self-reliant so that they can stand on their feet. The situation in Mehsana is not good. There are very less girls compared to boys and this is the reason why I try to encourage them with such incentives," Prajapati told. Sheetal Sathwara, who runs the Anganwadi Centre said " Leave alone a begger, I have never come across any poor person donating gold for girls in my entire-life."
Deepak shah, a gold jeweller who gave Khimjibhai the gold earrings at discount rate said," These were small earring slightly bigger than nose stud. The total cost came upto Rs 13,000. But after I found that Khimjibhai wanted to present the earring to poor girls, I decided to give him a discount of Rs 3,000."
After spending all his money for the earring, Prajapati was all set for another round of begging. But a lady teacher, who was transferred from government school on Tuesday, gave him Rs 500 as his earnings for that day.
This shows that one need not be rich to do goo to others . Khimjibhai has set an example for us to follow and we salute his initiative.
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