CSR Success Stories

EUGINE DURONGPI (Umrongso, Assam)

A Tribal Woman becomes torchbearer of education in Umrongso

Every now and then, we come across a teacher who goes beyond the call of duty for their students. “Give someone a fish and you’ll feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish and you’ve fed them for a lifetime.” This common, simplest of sayings summarises the purpose of education in a nutshell.

In 2013-14, Eugine Durongpi, (Founder, Head Master) who belongs to a relatively remote tribal hamlet of Umrongso, Assam put her best effort forward to establish a charitable school in her late father’s name- ‘Lovelywell Durong Memorial School’ with meager resource she could collect from selling off some pigs.

She constructed a small classroom for preparatory schooling in her home. Having no such schools in vicinity, parents belonging to neighboring villages including daily wage workers preferred sending their kids to her school for day-boarding. She started the school with 15 students.

She was so committed that she knocked on every door to raise resources for her school. She approached DBF and urged them to contribute in terms of basic school infrastructure. She convinced them that if basic school infrastructure was available the enrollment of students would increase.

The Foundation worked with her to provide basic infrastructure, safe drinking water facility, school furniture, solar study lamps and more. Today, the school that was started with just a handful of kids, has 200 students upto class VII.