SOCIAL INITIATIVES Walkathon In order to increase awareness about climate change, the Aga Khan Education Service, India (AKESI), a part of the Aga Khan Development Network, organized the Walkathon 2020 (prior to lockdown), in association with the Diamond Jubilee High School (ICSE) and Diamond Jubilee High School (Girls) in Mumbai. To know more about this initiative, click here.
Climate Emergency - Wake Up Call! The students, of Aga Khan School, Chitravad in India, took the initiative and organized an exhibition to showcase the projects around the theme of Climate Change (prior to lockdown). To sensitize the community members, street plays were performed prior to the event by the students of Grades VI to XI in Chitravad and the neighbouring towns of Talala and Sasan. To know more about this initiative, click here.
Aga Khan Schools in India pledge to save Mother Earth AKESI celebrated Environment Week (8-12 June) to enlighten the staff, students and parents about the importance of safeguarding the planet. Staff were encouraged to make a “Save my Mother Nature Pledge”, which saw the AKESI staff vowing to take action to conserve natural resources, follow the Three R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle) and stop using plastic and toxic materials. To know more about this initiative, click here.
Best out of Waste Students have been their resourceful best and created numerous ‘Best Out of Waste’ projects. The most recent being the handwash dispenser model made by Master Rudraksh Goswami of Grade 6 at Aga Khan School, Mundra, using material available at home. To apply the concept of reduce-reuse-recycle in everyday life, AKSM staff created a hand-wash station from waste/discarded water tank, filtered water jars and waste construction materials like iron rods. At Aga Khan School, Sidhpur, a trolley was created out of a discarded barricade. This is now used to collect garbage in the school.
Face Masks for Humanity – An Initiative of Aga Khan Preschools As the lockdown is being relaxed across India, it has become essential to wear face masks when we venture out. Hence the demand for face masks have increased. With the surge in COVID cases, doctors, nurses and the community’s frontline workers are experiencing a severe shortfall of affordable facemasks. Considering the need, Aga Khan Preschools (AKP) made 5000 facemasks in less than 2 weeks for the underprivileged population in their neighbourhoods. To know more about this initiative, click here.
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