LBW Scores a Century
It’s a major milestone for us: thanks to your help the LBW Trust has just reached its 2010 goal of supporting 100 disadvantaged students in India, Pakistan, South Africa and [...]
Namal College
The LBW Trust is supporting the education of students at Imran Khan’s Namal College in Pakistan – this video tells the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4lVAeiFd0k
The LBW Trust Annual Dinner 2010 – Photos
Thanks to all who helped make our 2010 Annual Dinner on February 22nd at the SCG a huge success, especially our wonderful guest speakers, Joel Garner and Greg Chappell. It [...]
Congratulations to our student
Congratulations to our student Tinashe Ruswa who has just received a terrific and well-deserved honour.
Tinashe graduated from the University of Western Cape late last year and he has been awarded the [...]
The LBW Trust
The LBW Trust is now supporting the tertiary education of 100 students in South Africa, India, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Our hope is that when they graduate, these young men and women will play an important part in improving the future of their communities and nations.
Distribution of LBW cheques to students in Orissa, India
S C Choudhury, who works with our NGO partners the Vikash Educational Charitable Trust (VECT) in India, sends these pictures of students receiving their scholarship cheques from LBW in October.
He writes: “Please find a few photos of distribution of Scholarship cheques to students who received it on 2nd October, an auspicious day for all in India. Inspite of heavy rains and a bus strike, 8 students turned up to receive the cheques from the hands of Dr Dhanada Misra, SC Choudhury and Meera Choudhury ,Trustees of Vikash Educational Charitable Trust. The boys came alone and the girls were accompanied with their parents/guardians. There was a feeling of welcome, joy and bonhomie. The facilitators of the Trust served cold drinks and sweets to the students and the parents. These students are from a really poor strata of the society and bright ones at that. They are studying ENGG and Medicine in the best colleges of the state. They are sure to make their career, uplift their families and contribute back to the society.
We feel greatly indebted and humbled by the munificience of the LBW Trust and its Trustees. We hope our association would grow stronger in years to come.”
Great news from two LBW graduates in Zimbabwe
We are delighted to hear this week that two of the first students the LBW Trust supported when it started in 2006 are now directors of a company in Zimbabwe. Pride Mafede (Electrical Engineering) and Miraculous Simanga Elisha (Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) in Entrepreneurship) completed their degrees in South Africa with the LBW Trust’s financial support. Now their company, T.F. Holdings Zimbabwe, is fulfilling a contract secured by tender to wire 10 houses built for workers at a gold mine.
VECT, Orissa
The LBW Trust has linked up with the Vikash Educational Charitable Trust (VECT) as our NGO partner in Orissa, India. VECT is assisting the Trust by recommending impoverished and disadvantaged students for educational support. We are now supporting 26 students from VECT. VECT will also monitor their progress jointly with the LBW Trust.
Donation of George Gittoes painting
Well-known Australian war artist George Gittoes has most generously donated one of his paintings, ‘Two Dogs’, to The LBW Trust. ‘Two Dogs’ by Mr Gittoes will be auctioned by The LBW Trust to raise money for the support of our students. If you are interested in purchasing the painting, please call the LBW Trust on 0425 207 258
Mr Gittoes has also referred the Trust to the Sustainable Peace and Development Organization (SPADO) – an NGO in Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, where he has extensive links and has visited often. After discussions with Mr Gittoes, the LBW Trust has agreed to educate young women from this troubled area as well as the Swat Valley
Students in Pakistan and Imran Khan
Imran Khan