FASS welcome package to NE students in USA
Last Date : February 28th, 2015

FASS (Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters) is an International non profit organization head quartered in Houston, Texas. Our primary mission is promotion of Northeast India comprising the eight states. Promotion also mean, 'inspiration and enlightenment'. FASS realizes that education is the key to individual success which will bring eventual development and enlightenment of the region. We encourage education from primary level.

With that in mind FASS has extended an inspiring hand to individuals like Uttam Teron who singehandedly started his school in his own home, and is now bringing enlightenment to hundreds of students in and around his village, Pamohi, through his Parijat Academy. Realising the fact that 70% of NE households do not have electricity, FASS have lunched a program of Let There Be Light for Edcation in Northeast India (LTBLFE), and has started distributing free Solar Reading Lamps to deserving students in the Northeast.

We have also started free distribution of pocket English dictionaries to high school students. Needless to say these projects are token projects being executed with the noble spirit of Rabindranath Tagore: ekla solore (if nobody respond to your call, then move alone).

While these projects are going on, FASS also encourages students to go for higher studies overseas. With that in view, FASS has taken a resolution to give inspiration to students of Northeast India who are studying engineering in the USA. However, while trying to address the issue, we realized that we even do not know how many students from the NE are studying engineering in the USA.

Also realising that our resource is meagre (we run on individual contribution of members and donors), we have decided to offer, as an introduction, a $500 WELCOME PACKAGE to a selected student from NE who is studying engineering in the USA. We hope that the process will also help us to know the NE student community in USA better and also will help us to decide on more effective measures in the future.

We also hope that through this process, we the NR-NEIs (ie non resident Northeast Indians) living in the USA will start the process to know each other better. NE residents living in the USA are also encouraged to sponsor this program with additional WELCOME PACKAGES by donating to FASS through our website (www.friendsofassam.org).

For selection of the student studying engineering in the USA for this introductory FASS WELCOME PACKAGE of $500 (2015), FASS has formed a (3) three member committee to select the right candidate.

Following are some of the minimum necessary criteria:
1) The student must be from any of the eight states of NE. (NE origin).
2) The student must have been a full time student in 2014 in an US University in any major branch of engineering. (Note: this would exclude IT Engineering.)
3) The parents of the student must not be working or living overseas.
4) Other things being equal, there may be additional criteria (such as economic requirement etc) which will be finalised by the FASS committee formed for the purpose.

Deserving students of NE studying engineering in the USA are encouraged to apply. To apply for this FASS WELCOME PACKAGE of $500, the student may make a simple application along with his/her bio data and a short essay of around 500 words (minimum) about his/her own personal vision in life and his/her vision for the North East. Also the student need to furnish information about his/her parents so that we can verify that he/she is of Northeast Indian origin.

The deadline of receiving application is Feb 28th, 2015.

The winner will announce in April 2015.

The application need to be sent to the following email: [email protected] .

A copy may be sent to the undersigned.

Rajen Barua
President
FASS International
Houston, Texas
Ph 713 677 9162
email: rajenbarua(at)gmail(dot)com