Irfan was about to quit school in class eight due to poverty and informed Alamin that he planned to start working in the jute mills to earn money. Alamin motivated Irfan and his father to let Irfan continue his studies. Irfan did not use to get good grades in school, but after joining the EDS he got good results (grade A, GPA 4.75 out of 5) in the upper secondary school exam (Secondary School Certificate, SSC). After that Irfan’s father died and again Irfan thought he had to stop studying as his father had been the only earning member in the family. Irfan informed Hafiz about his situation and Hafiz inspired him to continue his education and started providing him 1500 Taka/month (20 USD) for his family costs. Then Irfan’s mother got sick and eventually paralyzed. Again Irfan was about to stop his education to take care of his mother and earn money for her treatment. When Hafiz heard this he went to Irfan’s home and became surprised to see how patiently Irfan took care of his mother. Irfan did the shopping, cooked, cleaned the house, fed his mother and helped her to go to the toilet. Hafiz cried when he saw this difficult situation and decided to bear the treatment costs for Irfan’s mother. One friend of Hafiz, Ratna, motivated her brother to provide Irfan’s mother free treatment. Irfan’s mother was cured and Irfan could again concentrate on his studies and got a good grade (A, 4.4 out of 5) in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam. Irfan is in charge of the EDS Ajax branch, and even during the hard times he still continued teaching 50 poor children in Ajax. Irfan never thought he could continue his education and study at a university in Bangladesh, but now he is admitted to the National University in Bangladesh and has started to study Bachelor in commerce.

Razu is an EDS student who graduated from high school in 2011. He is teaching the EDS students in class 7. His father drives a rickshaw and his family is very poor, so Hafiz once told him: “If you start working now you can earn more money than by being a student”. Then Razu replied: “But I want to be educated and help other people like you”. Hafiz told Razu that he could earn more money if he would give private classes, so why would Razu volunteer for the EDS. Razu replied: “It is our responsibility to help others, we should not always think about money. If you (Hafiz) can spend so much of your time for us, then why can’t we do the same for the EDS?” Hafiz was very happy to hear that an EDS student wished to help others because he had gotten help from EDS.