HUMBLE REQUEST TO ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS - PLEASE READ IN FULL THOUGH THE MATERIAL BELOW IS A LITTLE TOO LONG

Assalaamu Alaikum

Friday the 5th of December dawned as any other day, but Allah made it slightly different for me as He made me cross the path of a young man who will one day probably be the first Astrophysicist that Sri Lanka will produce Insha Allah. I use the word "will" rather than "may" because of the determination of this young man.


Being a son of a paralyzed father and mother who is probably a psychiatric patient his guts and determination is amazing

He worked as a Security Guard in a Private Hospital in Colombo doing the 12 hour night shift daily to complete his G.C.E. Advanced Level. 

Hailing from Puttalam, he  studied in the bio stream amongst poverty and was selected to the Agriculture and Plantation degree at the Wayamba University in 2007. 

He rejected it because he wanted to be an Astrophysicist. 

Then he became a salesman in a private telecom company during which period he completed his IELTS and TOEFL as well as obtained Diplomas in English, Information Technology, Programming, Web Designing and Hardware Engineering. He has won several awards for various activities in the school in which he studied.

As an eight year old child the stars fascinated him. For his G.C.E. Ordinary Level he made an excellent project study on Mars. He has contacts with NASA and several other space agencies. In the far away capriconous constellation, a star has been named after him by NASA in recognition of his interest. He has won several quiz competitions the highlight being an award from Sir, Arthur C Clarke.

His poverty did not stop him, he continued in the pursuit of his childhood dreams of wanting to reach the stars. He obtained a place with a 75% scholarship at the Girne American University in Cyprus for a degree in Nano Technological Engineering. He could not proceed to Cyprus because he could not find the balance money. Then recently Allah gave him another opportunity.

 A visit to an Educational Exhibition in Colombo and a chance meeting with a lady in an American University got him fast admission to the North Dakota State University in U.S.A. She had offered him 50% scholarship waver of admission fee for a degree programme in Physics. He feels that he is on the verge of realising his dream. He has  already obtained his visa for U.S.A.

His limitation now is only money. He has to be in U.S.A. in about 2 weeks time as the Course begins on the 6th of January 2009. His needs are for the balance Course fee, board and lodging and air travel. The generous lady has offered him immediate part time employment too.

Can we too be generous in this season of sacrifice to help this young man to make his dream come true and enable him to make history. 

He needs Rupees 1.1 million.

Who will come forward to make a dream come true, Insha Allah?
Together we can.

PS. This is his story as told to me and substantiated by documents. Those who are interested in this cause please contact me by mail  and I will send more details and bank account number, etc. personally