We have a similar case that happened in South India and wherein the little boy outshines the most talented entrepreneurs, famous personalities and celebrities as well. PC Mustafa, a coolie’ s son has grown so well into an entrepreneur that even a management student could not think of. He belongs to a very financially poor family and even his parents are not educated. He was the eldest of the four children and he had three younger sisters.
He belonged to a village where the people of the village were always far away from education, electricity and advancement. The children had to walk almost 4 kilometers if they continued school after primary school. With the idea of walking so long, most of them did give up the idea of education. And so did Mustafa as well. He instead thought of being a daily wage worker. He did fail in 6th and thereon his interest was drawn. He was good at Math and so he did have little expectations from himself and one of his professors, Mathew, did help him grow to a good point. He did not like the idea of Mustafa dropping out of the school and simply asked him a simple question which made Mustafa motivated for the whole of his life. The professor asked him if he would like to become a teacher or rather be a coolie when he grows. He studied harder there on, came first in the 7th grade in his class and then after achieved good grades in grade 10 as well. He followed the professor on his footsteps. And he moved out of the village to go to college for further studies and made sure that he paid greater attention in class, making sure that he doesn’ t spend more money, and that he had to prove
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himself. He did suffer a lot during college life but managed it all. He studied harder and stood 63rd in the entrance of National Institute of Technology then known as Regional Engineering College. He took loan to pay off his tuition fees and actually wanted to become an engineer and had no idea of becoming an entrepreneur.
He moved from Bangalore to Ireland to Dubai to India and made his name and earned his respect. He worked with Motorola and he still remembers his experience on his first flight. He then shifted to Dubai and worked with Citi bank where his salary was raised in lakhs. He sent one lakh rupees to his father with his friend and his father had tears in his eyes while he handled such a huge amount. He was happy that he was a support to his family. He then wanted to do something of his own and resigned from Dubai and moved down to India. Only one of his cousin and his wife did support him in this. His motto was to spend time with his family and that he had to give back to the society what it had given to him.
WINSPIRE: Empowering youth | December, 2016