Youth outfit launches project for development of schools

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, February 26

Keeping in mind the importance of education and the need to prioritise development of educational institutions of Punjab, Team Initiators of Change launched a state-wide project ‘Project USAARI: Unfolding skills and ambitions of rural India’ at Circuit House today.

The Initiators of Change is a ‘youth only’ organisation and has been working on youth development in Punjab since 2015. They launched the campaign in the presence of Sardara Singh Johl, Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda; and Gauravdeep Singh, founder Initiators of Change. Samridhi Sharma, president, Initiators of Change, Ludhiana, and vice-president Mithil Goyal shared introduced the project and its team to the media.

Talking about the project, Samridhi Sharma said: “This is our dream project. Over the years, we have seen students in rural pockets of Punjab struggling owing to lack of facilities in schools and lack of exposure to soft skills and various activities of personality development, which students of urban areas do not miss on. Project USAARI will work not on soft skills development but also infrastructure development of government schools. We need to stop complaining to the government and start working on things we can work on.”

On execution plan of the project, Gauravdeep Singh said: “We are signing an MoU with the Department of School Education, Punjab, to work on schools and are generating the required funds from crowd funding by enrolling families in becoming monthly donors to the project.”

Sardara Singh Johl, who had come especially to show his support to the team, said: “The government needs to work with more such bodies and organisations and support them in the work they are doing. We need youth to come forward and fix the deteriorating educational structure of the state. This unique exchange of knowledge between urban and rural students will definitely be beneficial for the overall growth of the state. Basic infrastructure is must in every school. Not only this young team, but the state should come together and work on providing the basic structures for our students to grow.”