Life as I have Seen It

Author(s): Urmila S Dholakia
Publisher: Urmila S Dholakia

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Life - As I've seen it =
called his brother to join him in the hard working environment of Calcutta.
Their wealth of experience started to grow exponentially, largely due to their uncanny enthusiasm. They earned the trust of the businessmen through their hard work and honesty. People started respecting the duo as they slowly started making progress in the business world. The Goddess of wealth was showering Her blessings upon them and slowly, but surely, their income was skyrocketing. They were both made partners in an extremely well reputed firm. In addition to their material wealth, the values their parents had bestowed upon them were also blossoming as they both gave priority to simplicity and humility.
Their impoverished childhood gave them a sense of direction; they wanted to help the poor come out of the shackles of poverty and thought donating would be an effective way to do this. However, rather than donating monetary wealth, they decided to share the wealth of knowledge. Remembering their mother's purse for immediate needs, they began to set keeping 10% of their earnings to help others. Although they were still poor, they had started this savings accounts right from the beginning. They formed a plan as to how to use this money wisely and started executing their plan right - why wait to put a good plan into action?
Their first plan of action was woman's education. The first task of this plan was to start an