Social Services
"We believe that the service of the country is the service of the Lord of Lords and Devotion to the People is the devotion to the Supreme Self".
- Extract from the Chinmaya Family Pledge
Their hearts are touched by the joy of giving and they resolve to carry on such service even after they have walked into the wide world of competition. They truly become once for all, useful and dynamic contributors to society.
To inculcate respect for all irrespective of their work status, students of CIRS learn to address the unskilled workers as 'Anna'-s (Elder brothers), 'Akka'-s (elder sisters) or 'Amma'-s (mothers).
The following are some of the ongoing projects of CIRS are as follows:
1. TRIBAL SCHOOL PROJECT
The tribal school is located at the foothills of Siruvani hills in Coimbatore and is about 5 km away from CIRS. The IB students have started renovating the tribal school building which is in a bad condition. Their work began with repainting the black boards and the school walls. The IB students have dug three compost pits for the disposal of bio-degradable wastes generated at the tribal school. The students are generating funds to carry out structural repairs of the building. In addition, the IB students teach patriotic songs, craft work and other skills to the students of the tribal school during their weekly visits there. The tribal school students presented a value based entertainment show in front of a packed audience at the Independence Day function at CIRS.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS PROJECT
The objectives of this project are as follows:
Create awareness among the CIRS community about the importance of preserving environment and managing plastic use
o Create awareness among the immediate outside community (like the shop owners outside school and the villagers nearby) about the importance of preserving environment and managing plastics.
Strategy Adopted
- Stage 1: Students pick up plastic waste and clean up the area outside school on the main Siruvani Road from Sadivayal to Alandurai, visit the small tea shops and grocery shops just outside the school and give them large drums to collect their plastic waste
- Stage 2: Door to door campaign in the campus to collect plastic waste and to spread awareness and assist plastic waste management.
- Stage 3: Preparation of paper bags by our students during craft classes. This activity will consume very little time of their art and craft class. These paper bags are to be distributed to the shop owners for use. This would be an ongoing activity. The papers for these bags shall be the used newspapers collected in the campus.
3. LEARNING BY DOING
Staying in the rigour of the boarding life, students find it difficult reaching out and interacting with the community as well as their near and dear ones. Any boarding school is limited in its access and exposure to everyday life. In order to overcome this deficiency, we utilize the students' winter vacations by designing inspiring and interesting assignments which make them reach out to the community and make a difference. The assignment integrates the application of varied subject knowledge gathered by the child into one creative effort. Each child's feedback and report of the project is collated, evaluated and awarded points by a team of teachers after the vacation. Some of the assignments developed are given under.
Please click on the Project Title for the details.
4. Our students give up their food and snacks and desserts to save money and contribute Rs 1.00 lakh to the October 2008 Bihar Flood Victims.
(Click here to view the Letter to Chief Minister in PDF format )
“We believe that the service of the country is the service of the Lord of Lords and Devotion to the People is the devotion to the Supreme Self” - Extract from the Chinmaya Family Pledge
