Starting a school:

The long term goal of Shuruaat remains to build residential schools and provide quality education to underprivileged children. Education without a conducive and supporting environment does not produce the expected results.A lot of resources, human efforts  and hard-work goes to waste, but most importantly and unfortunately, it is some children who pay the ultimate price and their lives are destroyed.

Start the school for Nursery students:

Shuruaat’s long term goal is to provide quality Education to children who are being devoid of it. The journey which started on footpath, over the years moved to a single room classroom and now we are very soon going to start our first school for the nursery children.

How and why do we want to start a school ?

In our journey of the last 5 years we have not only been teaching the children, but we have been learning from them as well. While working with these children, we realised that the most important thing which these children need more than anything is a ‘learning- environment’. We can spend a few hours trying to teach these children, but before and after our class these children spend most of their time on the footpath, at traffic signals or playing around near the slums. It is there where these children are most vulnerable and often fall prey to untoward incidents, or get influenced by anti-social elements.

In order to keep children away from these influences and keep them in a safe environment, we enrolled a lot of children to nearby government schools and in some cases with the help of our benevolent donors to private schools. But, still it is not possible to get all children, specially the young ones to be admitted to school.

After due deliberation and discussions we came to the conclusion that the best and success can be achieved by keeping these children in a safe and protected environment of learning, and the best possible way to do that is to have our own school, where these children can learn and be Educated in a formal manner.

We decided to implement this solution in a gradual and phased manner as we understood that starting a school is no mean task and will need a lot of resources.

We have done some initial groundwork.

A building has been rented in a location which is near to the area from where these children live, and classrooms have been set up. We have also set up a library and a computer lab for senior students.

Nutrition is an important aspect and essential too. Most of these children come from under-privileged backgrounds and are malnutritioned. One of  Shuruaat’s next goals is to provide these nursery children’s nutritious and healthy mid-may meals to ensure proper growth of these children during their most important growing years.