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Code For Athoy — Contest for Saving a Life

Hi everyone,

I hope you find this post in good health. A 17 years old brother(Athoy) of ours is fighting with blood cancer and his family is going through a stage where they can't bear the expense of his treatment anymore after managing 9 out of 12 chemotherapy.

We are arranging an online programming contest nationwide for collecting funds for the treatment to continue. His family needs around 250,000tk(about 3,000$) for the next Chemotherapy and more in upcoming days.

Currently, they're not being able to manage any reasonable help from other sources during this COVID-19 pandemic and selling out their last of the assets and belongings. We've been informed that Athoy needs three more chemotherapy till next year and completed the first installment for the next chemotherapy planned on 7-8th of June 2020. So, for now we are planning to collect your donations till the 3rd of June 2020.

We've collected around 20,000tk(about 230$) and already transferred it to Athoy's family so far but we need more help. I really hope this programming community can bring a reasonable difference to their current situation.

For local(Bangladesh) transactions we're using Bkash and Rocket payment system. For other countries, if you can send money using xoom please send me a message or email me at [email protected], I'll provide you the details.

You can send any amount of donation to us. Please complete this form after your donation. The contest registration can be completed through the same form.
Payment details for local(Bangladeshi Bkash and Rocket) transactions are attached to the form.

All the donations will be delivered to Athoy's family under DIU Computer & Programming Club and my own surveillance.
We are counting on you. Each and every penny makes a difference.

Facebook event for more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/2568131126769450

Contest details:-

Contest Link: https://toph.co/c/code-for-athoy-contest-for-saving-a-life
Contest Time & Date: 18:00BDT Friday, 5 June 2020
Duration: 4 hours
There will be around 10-13 problems. The majority of the problems will be among easy to medium-hard level problems.
Huge thanks to sgtlaugh and fsshakkhor for their problem sets, they will be reviewing the whole set as well.

The contest invitation will be sent 2-3days before the contest. Make sure it's correct.

UPD: Contest has ended successfully.
Public Replay contest scheduled on 9th June: https://toph.co/c/code-for-athoy-contest-for-saving-a-life-r

Your generosity will be remembered and may almighty bless you with good-health and rewards.
We're highly expecting your valuable participation and a smooth contest.

Thanks to all of you for staying with us.
Stay well. Stay safe ♥


UPD1: Donations collected and transferred ~30,000BDT(~350USD) till 30th May.
UPD2: Donations collected ~42,000BDT(~495USD) and transferred ~40,000BDT(~470USD) till 31st May.
UPD3: Donations collected ~44,000BDT(~520USD) and transferred ~40,000BDT(~470USD) till 1st June.
UPD4: Donations collected ~73,157BDT(~860USD) and transferred ~74,000BDT(~870USD) till 4th June.
UPD5: Toph has donated 10,000BDT(~120USD) and finally we've transferred 85,000BDT(~1,000USD) in total.

Final update: Athoy's 10th chemo took place on 7th June and it went well so far.

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Registered. Hope God have his mercy on Athoy and his family. ♥

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I would like to request MikeMirzayanov to pin this post at home (if possible) !

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Done :)

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    Thanks a lot for your help. Let's pray for him and his family..

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Registration done. hope he will get well soon.

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Completed registration. Praying for his recovery.

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Praying for his quick recovery and good health..♥ Will register soon..

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Registration complete. Hope for the best of Athoy.

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You guys are trying hard and soul to save him. Best of luck to all of you.

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May Allah grant this contest very very successful. And best of luck for Athoy.

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Done :) Hope he will get well soon

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May the Almighty cure him very soon. ❤ Thanks to all of you who are trying hard to collect donatiom and save him. Stay Safe!

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I would like to request @MikeMirzayanov for promote this post in home page.. It will be helpful for that guy. thank you .

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We are doing our all to contribute as much as possible <3 ^_^ . May he get well soon. Expecting everyone's support for this. Please help us as much as you can.

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Will we get another contest in his memory if things don't work out?

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Can you provide some details so as to confirm this is not a scam. Considering you are from Bangladesh and thus please attach some formal documents like previous bills of chemotherapy and a photo of Athoy so that we can see who is gonna be the beneficiary of our donations.

In mean no disrespect but once a Legend said Trust but Verify.

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    I absolutely understand your concern and it's very much reasonable.

    I am risking my own identity including a reputed university's(In Bangladesh) programming club in this crisis. The patient is a brother of my own varsity junior. Also, a reference post from a faculty of the university is attached to the event description.

    Previously some organizations misused the proof documents and they never received any collection from them. Law enforcement didn't help as well. We won't be feeding them again with new proofs.

    Also, please don't say "you are from Bangladesh", it sends a different message. Scams can happen in any country. Are you willing to make any donations? That would really help.

    Thanks a lot.

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Hopefully Athoy will get well very soon.

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get well soon, athoy brother.

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Completed registration and praying for him so that he can get well soon

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Just registered. May Athoy get well soon. ❤