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 THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN MUSLIMS OF AMERICA
Muslims Establish Journalism Medal at Aligarh University
Maryland, 22 June, 2004: Last month at the annual convocation of the Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, Shaikh Janesar Akhtar, the student who stood first in this year’s graduating class in Journalism & Mass Communication, received the Association of Indian Muslims of America Gold Medal.
This gold medal, established recently by the Washington DC based Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM), will be awarded every year, to the best student in Aligarh Muslim University’s department of journalism & mass communication.
AIM spokesman Kaleem Kawaja stated that, this step has been taken to alleviate the acute shortage of good English language journalists in the minority community in India. Improving the standard of education in India’s Muslim community, which is backward in education, is one of the major thrusts of AIM.
AIM has a twelve-year-old very robust program to provide financial assistance to schools and colleges, and scholarships to students, of the minority community in India. AIM operates this program in India with the cooperation of several minority educational organizations, e.g. Students Islamic Trust, New Delhi; Trust for Promotion of Higher Education, New Delhi.
Another educational project of AIM that is nearing completion is the ‘AIM Technical Training Institute’, an Industrial Training Institute in Ahmedabad for the youth from the economically deprived segments of society. AIM is building this institute in cooperation with the Falah-e-Darain Education Society of Ahmedabad.
Sd/- Kaleem Kawaja
Vice-President
THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN MUSLIMS OF AMERICA
PO Box 10654, Silver Spring, MD 20914 USA; Tel. ++1 - 301 286 7340
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