School Team Updates

Radius School Initiative: The Way Forward
The Radius: School Committee of LIBA stands for innovation, creativity and passion. The committee has realized the need of leaders in our country and not just the race-winning rats for the rat race. Therefore it has brought the likeminded people together for improving the education system in corporation schools.

From its inception to the present day, the school committee has grown, from being a loosely formed group with tender objectives to a team with clearly laid out goals. The committee aims to reach at least 150 students by the end of the year and help them realize the importance of education in their lives.

Our committee has currently spotted a school Sarvodaya School, Chennai where less privileged children study with minimal facilities. We initially thought of teaching students various subjects however we soon realized that it might not be very useful to them. Since the most important thing that these children lack is motivation. If we succeed in motivating them then the children will manage the rest on their own.

Therefore our committee has come up with an objective to motivate them by developing their personalities and inculcating leadership skills in them at a tender age. To achieve this we are developing 5 modules , each module targets a particular quality of an ideal leader.

The first module aims at building self confidence in children so that they start believing in themselves through which we can target the general sense of helplessness that is found in the less-privileged children. The next module aims at building self-respect in children and also teaching them the importance of respecting others. The third module is on Team building so as to help children form teams and work in teams effectively. The fourth module will concentrate on developing children’s skill to view a problem as a set of goals and sub-goals. We believe that this module will help children in gaining clarity in their personal life’s goals which in-turn will motivate them to pursue their education. The last module focuses on sensitizing children to the social problems troubling society in general. It includes issues like HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, sexual harassment and forced child labour. Also there are few general issues like corruption, dowry, pollution etc. This module should help our children in gaining an insight in to the social problems. They should be able to protect themselves and their siblings from these problems.

We further hope that the children take these issues in hands and fight for them when they enter the world as adults. We believe that these modules will help them realize the importance of education and motivate them to continue their education even under hardships. However we feel that these modules are futile unless we can measure the success we achieve at each stage. Therefore we have also planned to come up with a measuring method through which we can evaluate the usefulness of our strategy.

We currently are in the final stage of developing these modules and measuring instrument and we hope to implement it, right from this month by visiting the school regularly. We at the School Committee believe that as a growing nation it is our children who hold the key to the success of our country. If they are nurtured with care today then they will bring accolades for our nation tomorrow. Therefore we at Radius- School Committee are committed to the cause of aspiring these children for a better tomorrow