BaKhabar, June 2010, Page-2

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Quick Update on Bihar Anjuman’s Activities 1. 100% result in Bihar 10th Board Exam by RAHBAR Coaching centre, Patna students: http://patna.biharanjuman.org/ … 10 out of 10 students pass the BSSEB, 2010, after just 6 months of coaching. These potential drop-outs (because their weak financial condition and poor performance) rose from a ZERO level to claim 8 First divisions, and 2 second divisions. Patna chapter is planning their future career – it is suggested to get the 1stdivisioners admitted into Diploma Engineering courses, and the 2nddivisioners into ITIs or Paramedical courses of Imarat Sharia. Your donations to cover their admission fees can make this possible. 2. 100% result in Bihar 10th Board Exam by RAHBAR Coaching centre, Darbhanga students, after just 4 months of coaching: http://darbhanga.biharanjuman.org/ … Future planning for career of these students is being undertaken by the local committee, and they would follow the same policies as Patna, if donations are made available to cover for the admission fees. 3. 100% result in Bihar 10th Board Exam by RAHBAR Coaching centre, Samastipur, was just missed by a whisker. http://Samastipur.biharanjuman.org/15 out of 16 students passedhere while one girl was not so fortunate. Uniqueness of this centre has been the coaching of non-Muslim students as well (3 dalit Hindus, out of which 1 was in class 10th, who made his parents proud by passing the board exam).If you are not a member, as yet, but your heart beats for your homeland, get in, and walk along.	4. Madarsa RAHBAR-e-Banat (madarsa-cum-school for holistic education of GIRLS only), operational since 1st December 2009, offers FREE education to 125 poor girls, with 3 teachers: Building construction work started in 1st week of May, and foundation work up to existing ground level got completed, on 27th May 2010, for its 3 storied hostel building, designed by a professional gulf-based engineer. The hostel building has been so designed that it can serve the dual purpose of class-rooms as well as hostel, until we can construct separate class-room buildings, for which design is ready [available on the website]. This project is in urgent need of funds for construction as well as for operation (new teachers, and their salary being the main cost, currently). Be a part of the first school project of Bihar Anjuman: view details of the largest project of Bihar Anjuman, so far, and the most ambitious as well @ http://school.biharanjuman.org/ 5. New Face for Bakhabar: the e-magazine of Bihar Anjuman has its own unique face on Facebook,now. http://www.facebook.com/pages/BaKhabar/112591168779557. It provides an additional channel for young readers. 6. BaKhabar online readership (http://bakhabar.biharanjuman.org/), after shooting up by 400% in April (crossing 2,500 mark), it continued its growth and crossed a monthly figure of 3,600 on 15th May – it does not count the readers who get the magazine as email attachments or as hard copies.Congratulations to the BaKhabar editorial team, and the fans of BaKhabar, for this significant achievement.

7. 6, 832 members, @ Bihar Anjuman’sYahoogroup, the lifeline of the community, on 27th May 2010, in comparison with 6,607 members a month back - 225 new members in a month, alhamdolillah. Created on 14th June 2001, it remains at the top of all online groups from Bihar or Jharkhand. [Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biharanjuman/] 8. Yateem (Orphan) student @ Mulana Azad College of Engineering & Technology, Irshad Hussain Ansari, a beneficiary of BANEE scholarship (www.banee.org) receiving Rs. 2,500/= per month through 2 sponsors based in KSA, needed Rs. 40,000/= annual fees to be paid in May. Patna chapter’s initiative, led by Enam Khan Sb, made this possible, alhamdolillah. Brother Nur Aziz Khan Sb (Sudan) paid Rs. 20,000/=, college management was persuaded to pay Rs. 10,000/= and an online member from Kuwait contributed Rs. 10,000/=. 9. BAJEE (Bihar Anjuman’s Jewels for Educational & economic Empowerment), the ladies wing of Bihar Anjuman, gets Rs. 25,000 for two 2nd hand computers, and furniture for their latest venture,BAJEE Computer Training centre for Women, in Patna. After successfully operating three training (deeniyat + tailoring-cum-embroidery) centres in Patna, and one centre (deeniyat + tailoring) in Bherokhra village of Samastipur, sister Atia Khan’s initiatives to empower our women is bearing excellent fruits. Visit http://www.bajee.org/	10. RAHBAR Coaching project, Patna [Centre # 1, http://patna.biharanjuman.org/ ]: 9th Awards ceremony conducted on 23thMay 2010, to award the best performers of April. New batch of grade 8th students have started classes since 1st May 2010, Alhamdolillah. 11. RAHBAR Coaching project, Darbhanga [Centre # 3, http://darbhanga.biharanjuman.org/ ]: New batch of grade 8th students started classes on 1st May 2010, Alhamdolillah. 12. RAHBAR Coaching project, Rafiganj, Aurangabad [Centre # 4, conducted two class-tests, 1st on 26th April 2010, and 2nd on 25th May. [http://aurangabad.biharanjuman.org ] 13. RAHBAR Coaching project, Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, Centre # 5,after commencing classes on the 5th April 2010, conducted an awards ceremony on 11th May and rewarded ten students with cash prize [View details @ http://chakradharpur.biharanjuman.org/]. 14. RAHBAR Coaching project, Sadpura, Muzaffarpur [ http://muzaffarpur.biharanjuman.org/, Centre # 6] is gearing up to shift to a new location @ Hazrat Ali (R.A.) Academy, Chandwara. Now, Chandwara students will be given fresh opportunity to apply, and classes are likely to commence in 1st week of June. 15. Bihar Anjuman’s website (www.biharanjuman.org) improved its performance this month as well, reaching a level of 60,044 page-views (13th April- 12th May), a new peak – this is for pages with Google Analytics code (covers 75% of the biharanjuman pages). Last month, it crossed the 55,000 page-views for the first time. Islamic pages [http://islam.biharanjuman.org/] providing download facilities for Quran, Ahadeeth, Seerah, lectures, videos, movies, etc., top the list of pages viewed by visitors. Participate in a good cause; write to rahbar@rahbar.info

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