Imphal, February 01 2009: Inspite of the Constitutional provisions for providing free education to all the children, there are many children who have not been able to get proper education due to one reason or the other.

Sponsoring such children to ensure proper education has become all the more imperative in conflict ridden States like Manipur which is also facing the issue of HIV/AIDS that have orphaned many children.

On the other hand, inspite of their strong desire, inmates in many of the children homes in Manipur whose parents are no more still have no opportunity to study in private schools as the maintenance amount provided by the Government for them is too limited.

In such a situation, the noble cause of the ACOAM-Lup and TM English School at Uripok in sponsoring the education of eight inmates out of 50 staying in the Children Home, Tera since the academic session of 2008 has shown a ray of hope to many destitute children in the State.

The required text books, exercise books, pens/pencils, compass boxes and ink pots of eight student-inmates for the academic session 2009 which is due to begin soon were distributed during a simple function at TM English School today.

The text books and other stationery items have been presented from the side of ACOAM-Lup while the education of the eight student-inmates is the responsibility of the school authority.

The school authority would not be charging any admission fee and monthly tuition fee from the said eight student-inmates upto the completion of class X.Speaking at the occasion, administrator of the school Indrajit Taorangbam observed that it is high time for all the private schools to take up the responsibility of sponsoring the education of such destitute children at whatever level they can.

Everyone should think over how far this system could be put into practice, he added.

As for TM English School, he went on to say, the eight student-inmates who are being sponsored currently would not be the last.

The school has its definite stand on carrying on with the good work, he added.

Former secretary of ACOAM-Lup Ibotombi Angom who was also present at the occasion, noted that it should be the responsibility of every section of the society to educate the children.

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