Summary: Education at Indus emphasizes the concept of
Servant Leadership and hence students are encouraged to initiate and
participate in community service projects.
Servant
Leadership at Indus International School
Leadership for Tomorrow is the
central idea of the school. This stems from
the belief that Preparation for Life is
the purpose of 21st century education. At Indus, leadership is
defined as the ability to first lead yourself and then others (through
service). As at the end of the day, leadership is experiential.
At IndusInternational School Bangalore (IISB), we believe in the concept of
“Servant Leadership” and students initiate & actively participate in
community service. Community Service projects at IISB nurture leadership skills
by stimulation of both the left and right brain. These projects sensitize
students and make them aware of local needs, which then attunes them
to global issues.
Education at Indus emphasizes that
values cannot be taught in classrooms. They have to be role modeled and
experienced. Values such as love, empathy, discipline and respect are nurtured
and developed in students by actively encouraging participation in social
service projects.
Principles of the Indus
Trust emphasize:
·
Providing equal opportunities to the
underprivileged
·
Servant Leadership – leadership through service
·
Thinking Globally and Acting Locally – Localism is a pre- requisite for globalism
Some
of the student led initiatives which have been implemented at Indus Bangalore
include:
Low Cost
Sanitary Napkin Machine Initiative
The low cost
Sanitary Napkin Machine is a student initiative which focuses on Wellness and
Women’s Empowerment.
The machine can manufacture sanitary napkins for less than one third the cost
of most branded ones. Small wonder then, that the inventor, social
entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham, drew attention
in 2014, when Time magazine placed him on its list of ‘101 Most Influential People in
the World’. Funds have been raised and the training for students as well as
teachers is underway. The underprivileged women in Sarjapur (a rural location near
Bangalore, city) will have an opportunity for better hygiene and comfort at low
cost.
Mobile Health Care Centre
The Mobile Health care centre is a
unique social service initiative to provide basic healthcare facilities and create
awareness about health and hygiene in the villages of Kalahalli, Handenhalli
and Billapura (Sarjapura District, Bangalore). A doctor and a nurse will serve on the mobile health care centre.
For three hours every-day, each village will have the van and services available for consultation
and treatment.
Medicines will be provided
free of cost and tests such as blood or urine tests will also be
conducted. Tele-medicine facilities will be available through a
tie up with Narayana Hrudayalaya.
Kalahalli
Advocacy Project
The Kalahalli Advocacy
Project, a student led initiative, is aimed at providing low
cost, safe drinking water to the
residents of the village of Kalahalli. The project was initiated, based on a
survey conducted by the students about the water problem in the village. Funds
were generated by students from grade 6 upwards for the setting up of an RO(reverse osmosis)
plant in the village. The RO plant was successfully installed in Kalahalli on
15th August, 2014.
As a part of this
project students organized a series of awareness campaigns in Kalahalli to
sensitize the residents about problems and diseases connected with the
consumption of impure drinking water .These campaigns included door to door
campaigning in over 530 households in the village as well as community meetings,
all of which were successful in conveying the intended message.
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Further to the
installation of the RO plant, students on their visits to Kalahalli, noticed a
large amount of good, clean water from the RO plant being wasted. This led them
to come up with their second initiative which was to find a solution for water
wastage and recycling. They decided to install a water tank at the site of the
RO plant, to save and utilize the waste water. Funds through various fund-raisers, were raised by students of IISB.
The water tank was inaugurated on 25 April 2015, and has visibly
improved the quality of life and health of the village
residents.
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