Uncategorised – Rainbow Schools – Empower Educate Enable

LAND For A Rainbow School BOUGHT

img_20170122_175223544_hdr After a long and diligent 5 year search for our Rainbow School in Punjab, we have finally bought a 2.5 acre plot on NH1 near Fatehgarh Sahib/Sirhind.

It is in the centre of 7 cities a short drive close by:

Sirhind 10 min

Rajpura 15 min

Ambala and Khanna 20 min

Patiala 30 min

Chandigarh 45 min

Ludhiana 60 min

Now in the process of planning the school and accommodation for orphans and widows and for volunteers.

It will feature a multi-purpose hall for activities, classrooms, residential rooms with attached bathrooms, kitchen.

Key features will be solar panels for electricity, water harvesting, solar cookers, organically grown fruit and vegetables.

We will be consulting with leading architects and planners to make this a model for future holistic and sustainable way to empower, educate and enable all.

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Research Trip

Research Trip – Special Needs Provisions in India 2010

Visited the National Spastic Society of India in New Delhi and found out about the various schools that they knew about. Made links with centres that supported disabled children in Delhi.

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Since 1999 Arvinder, Sandeep and Gurleen have visited centres in India which support disabled and orphaned children, widows and the elderly.

Some of the centres were well run and resourced, others were not good at all. Other than providing food, shelter and clothing they were not meeting the needs of many and instead of encouraging independence, were making them even more dependent.

Many lacked the necessary knowledge and skills that were needed to meet the needs of special needs children.

Most kept special needs children and adults away from society, many not seeing or knowing what was outside their four walls.

Not ONE had any integration or inclusive education.
Not ONE saw a need for a more HOLISTIC approach.

After 7 years of training teachers and parents, holding seminars, workshops, demonstrations on the use of key resources, it was clear that Northern India needed to see and experience what we in the West take for granted...
A HOLISTIC, IINCLUSIVE and fully INTEGRATED way of supporting the most vulnerable people in society.

It was then the idea of a RAINBOW SCHOOL was born.

One which will empower, educate and enable all, including the wider community.
A shining example of what could be and to traiblazer a new way forward that includes rather than excludes vulnerable people.
One that will inspire politicians and society to WANT to change the established educational system so that all government schools could be modelled on the RAINBOW SCHOOL way.