Its a shame that I could not find this in the web through search engines and this post definitely deserves it.
America to Thaenoor Village – A Journey of a Software Engineer
Senthil Kumar, a software engineer earning 4 lakhs per month (before 3 years) in Detroit, USA decided to pursue his dream when his bank balance reached 1 crore. Yes, it is such a wonderful dream which no one would have ever thought about.
Senthil Kumar resigned his job in Detroit and went back to his native Thinnanoor village, Trichy, Tamil Nadu. He wandered alone in a bi-cycle and visited many villages around Trichy. Finally he settled down in Thaenoor, a very remote village.
Family Background:
Senthil is the 3rd child of Gopalan and Leela. Gopalan works in a sugar factory, his brother is a doctor in London and sister settled down in Chennai after marriage. Senthil is a very simple man, traveling in a bi-cycle wearing a dhoti and living as a typical village person. He carries a laptop along with him in his cycle.
Senthil started his social work in January 24, 2005. He opened up a small hospital, a computer center and a small school under a tree for the people of this village. He thinks we need to learn more about our villages, the good things about our surrounding villages and think how to earn by staying in villages.
He has spent around 40 Lakhs from his pocket so far for this effort, to develop the village. Really Inspiring….
Senthil says “We need to find out ways of employment in villages. So we started Data Entry Operation, Collecting waste clothes from Tirupur and taking thread out of it, to re-use, Natural Agriculture, Manufacturing oil, etc… So far we have planted 3000 trees in and around our villages, which will increase the rainfall in our village”
Senthil’s colleagues abroad and his college friends are supporting his initiative. He says that whatever he has done are very small things and we need to do a lot to improve our villages which directly develops our INDIA.
Need of the hour:
They request Government School Teachers, Doctors and College students to visit Thaenoor village once in a week or once in a month to share their expertise, so that their village’s development will be faster.
Leela, Senthil Kumar’s mother expects him to get married soon. She is worried at times, when people comment like “After studying and earning so much, why your son has become like this……” But she is very much happy with Senthil Kumar’s efforts to develop INDIAN Villages…
2 comments:
I just made a google search "Thaenoor Shivaji" and was surprised to see only one result and that was ur blog. Appreciate ur work!"
Thanks.
Gayathri
Thanks for the comment !
And probably you are the only one to comment on my inactive blog.
Its a shame that we don't appreciate and recognize good work made by self-less people.
We don't find 24 hours sufficient to spend it in craps like youtube, orkut then how we would have time for all this ...???
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