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| The youth | The elderly |
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| We are with the gifted deprived |
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| The ways that affluence and disadvantage can influence educational attainment are well and widely known. Getting poor students to university costs more than money, and so the Foundation’s aim was to get students from less fortunate families into university, despite the initially daunting higher fees. The contention was that gifted students from under-privileged backgrounds need to be recognized and celebrated. It also came from the Foundation's understanding that “there's nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals”. |
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| The Foundation’s research revealed that deprived students may also be talented and gifted but they rarely got an opportunity to manifest themselves. There was a formidable wealth of talent going waste among the socially backward or under-privileged children who didn’t have access to higher education. Many don’t have the financial strength to reach higher education levels. Others get lost in the loopholes of the system. |
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| The Foundation wishes to support such gifted children and help them become responsible, talented and deserving citizens, professionals and adults. In turn, they could make contributions of fundamental significance to society and bring about substantial and relevant changes to our lives and the economy. |
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