Dear All, I am writing this mail to you in connection with the mishap that happened with one of our beloved friend Mr. Gaurab Rajbanshi, 28, who was shot dead by some criminals on 11 June 2007 in Dallas, United states. He was my roommate for over four years when I was doing my engineering course in Bangladesh. He was a very good student of electrical and electronics department of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Now we all are aware of deadly accident which took his life. The unfortunate accident was never thought of even in our dreams and it happened suddenly without any cause. Some freaks shot him while he was at work. The incident is something which I still cannot take easily…….it would have been different case if he would have died from other natural causes. He was the only son of his family and was the sole means of his family to make their dreams come true. His old parents are already retired and they don’t have any other sources of income. Very recently we came to know that Gaurab's family has a debt of US $ 12,000 which they had taken when sending Gaurab to USA for higher studies. He was about to complete his MBA course from there and was planning to wed in next couple of months. After this mishap his family members are in crisis, neither they can manage any source to return the debt nor they have any other alternatives to ensure that they will be able to have it in future. In this context, we, the Nepalese students from BUET are willing to help Gaurab’s family to lower their trouble by collecting some fund in memory of Gaurab. We have already collected about US $ 1300 from BUET’s Nepalese students and we have also managed to launch a website for the same purpose, which can be accessed at; http://www.gaurab.org Since the debt is much higher than the fund we are able to raise until now, we kindly request to all Nepalese students studying abroad, social workers, philanthropists, colleagues, and expatriates etc. to join us in support of Gaurab’s family. Those who are interested to support can make their contribution through Paypal account as mentioned on the above website. In case of the people who are in Nepal and are willing to contribute, please contact me at 9841340692. Your support will be highly appreciated and we assure that it will be used for good cause for humanity. Your’s faithfully, … Mr. Jay Karmacharya Katmandu Nepal