Akshay Kumar: “Here’s a little bit of me from my dream, to help many other children find out and achieve theirs …. Let’s raise the bar so we can raise enough money for the disadvantaged…”
Actor Akshay Kumar has a large heart and to raise money for Muktangan Charitable Trust which helps disadvantaged children, the action man has… well, taken some much needed action, to raise funds.
Muktangan currently needs Rs. 10 lakh that would partially cover one of their school pre-primary annual budgets for the academic year 2011-2012. The donor supporting this project would be directly fulfilling the dreams of the underprivileged children. Founded in 2003, Muktangan has pioneered the Whole School-Based Approach by developing a model that incorporates all the various aspects of quality education: the classroom environment, the curriculum and content, the teacher as a facilitator and the student as an active learner.
Currently, Muktangan runs seven Mumbai Municipal English medium schools in Worli and Lower Parel areas, providing low-cost, high-quality, and child-centered education to more than 2100 children from economically disadvantaged communities with 250 community women as teachers trained through its Teacher Education Programme.
Reaching out to his 6,13,502 fans on Twitter and Facebook, Akshay wrote:
“Hey guys i need ur help!! Its 4 charity dont worry 🙂 As its joy of giving week I’m auctioning my Speedy Singhs jacket, its a little bit of me from my film making dream to help raise enough money 4 disadvantaged children that Muktangan charitable trust are organising so maybe one day these kids dreams can also come true. So pls visit this website & bid 4 my jacket so we can all help in bringing good education to the under privileged. They need a Lot of help so I’m doubling whatever u guys can bid so we can make a difference together. Good luck & remember the deeper u dig into ur pockets the deeper i will, so come lets get digging :)”
So far, there have been twelve bids which is just short of the 1,53,999rs target. To bid, log on here