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Thank you so much for the lovely article, I really appreciate the time you have taken to write the article on my charity project.

Please thank your whole team from me because this has raised so much awareness and has brought me a step closer to my dream of building a school in India.

Celine Vaandrager
www.nonationwithouteducation.org

It has been demonstrated by kind-hearted Ms Celine that, if you have a desire and will you can successfully achieve your missions of life, as reported by Mai Al Khatib, reporter of your GulfWeekly newspaper. Ms Celine’s logo ‘No Nation Without Education’ specially under the present circumstances and present life is a must.
 
Efforts made by Ms Celine must be appreciated and must be given due coverage to bring her activities in the limelight for the people to know and act, if possible.

I am 72-years-old and I live in Aurangabad which is just 240km to Pune and Wanawadi from Pune is just 23km and I will be highly obliged if I can be of any help or service to Ms Celine to achieve her mission.

I have come here in Bahrain for just 30 days to stay with my eldest son Dinesh Arora and his family and I will be back in Aurangabad on June 14.

It is a great step forward to see ‘No Nation Without Education’ and to achieve her mission appointed a teacher, Ms Anita Pandurang Narke, to educate the children and later in the year 2015 wish to start a school.

I pray and wish for the grand success of Ms Celine to achieve her mission and earn a good name of parents and grandparents.

Kindly make it convenient and possible to convey our whole-hearted and deepest regards to Ms Celine and her parents for encouraging her to accept this path in the interest of children.

R M Arora,
Aurangabad
(presently in Bahrain)

Second Chance Charity will be having another designer and name brand sale on Saturday, June 22, at the Dilmun Club, Saar.

We need to urgently collect more clothes, shoes, belts, bags, etc to supplement what we already have and make a really tremendous sale. We would really appreciate it if you’d please search your closets and drawers for the things you no longer wear that would be suitable and consider donating to us.

It can be dropped off at the Dogfather’s Centre in Saar at anytime, or at the villa in Janussan on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday mornings until noon, or at Tibra’s on Budaiya Highway during normal business hours.

Any questions, call Tony at 39629889, or Margie at 39676851.

Margie Hamel,
By email.

Thank you for highlighting in last week’s Motoring Weekly, Jaguar Land Rover’s new $1.5 million engineering test centre in Dubai to conduct extreme hot weather vehicle research, development and testing.

It should be noted that all Jaguar models will benefit from our ability to test products and technologies and ensure our vehicles can withstand even the harshest of conditions.

Should your readers wish for more details please contact Mohammed Jalal & Sons Automotive, the authorised dealer of Jaguar in Bahrain, on 17707070. Our showroom in Sitra features the Jaguar models XF, XJ and XK, trades Jaguar Approved (pre-owned) cars and is also the home of our After-Sales Service Centre.

Mohammed Jalal & Sons.

I was interested to hear on the BBC World Service that a software company says it hopes to recruit hundreds of people with autism, saying they have a unique talent for information technology.

The German-based firm SAP said that by 2020, one per cent of its global workforce of 65,000 employees would be people with autism.

Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause problems with social interaction and physical behaviour. However, some people with the condition are highly-intelligent and have a keen attention to detail.

I hope employers in Bahrain become aware of this development and will respond to the plea from expat parents recently featured on the front page of GulfWeekly (issue 14).

The families asked for full and part-time work places to be made available for teenagers to learn vocational skills that will help them become more independent.

SAP executive Luisa Delgado said her company believed that ‘innovation comes from the edges’. She added: “Only by employing people who think differently and spark innovation will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st Century.”

It has already hired six people with autism at its office in the Indian city of Bangalore where they work as software testers. The firm said its productivity had increased as a result of their efforts, and it now plans to take on more such staff in other countries.

I hope open-minded companies in Bahrain will follow SAP’s lead.

T. MacDonald, Saar.