https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/tedx-redmond-speaker-afeef-sheikh-founder-of-the-literacy-crusade/ Indian American Community Magazine Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/tedx-redmond-speaker-afeef-sheikh-founder-of-the-literacy-crusade/#comment-962 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:37:13 +0000 https://blogbox.indianeagle.com/?p=15117#comment-962 Great interview! Thank you Mr. Agarwal for taking the time to talk to Afeef, and for giving him the opportunity to share his biomedical & environmental engineering related work, his community outreach efforts through his initiative “The Literacy Crusade”, and related experiences.

]]> https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/tedx-redmond-speaker-afeef-sheikh-founder-of-the-literacy-crusade/#comment-960 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:54:09 +0000 https://blogbox.indianeagle.com/?p=15117#comment-960 Not that before Newton propagated laws of gravitational forces apples were not falling down to earth or for that reason before Archimedes shouting, “Eureka,Eureka” found displacing equal amount of water to that of volume of his body to formulate laws of specific density; similarly we in India often overlook the plight of children begging on traffic crossing points. It is Afeef Sheikh who, even though born in India and now hails from USA, found the opportunity to help the downtrodden children through his crusade of literacy. Leave aside USA, many students of his age in India wouldn’t be knowing about the horrific habited conditions of Sunderbans. Afeef Sheikh is a shining star and we, as his grandparents, wish him success in his Literacy mission and assure him of regular donations and help from time to time. We urge fellow readers/viewers to donate books/writing material/funds for this noble humanitarian crusade. Also, we wish him success in times to come for the mission of alliviating pains of amputees of phantom limb syndrome (PLS).

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