Our community programmes aim to develop social and emotional wellness within students. When they volunteer for various community outreach programmes, they develop relationships with people from different socio-economic backgrounds. This inculcates empathy, humility, patience, and leadership skills which are vital to their growth. Social volunteering helps to apply their learning to solve real-world problems.
Many elite universities and colleges have made volunteer experience de rigueur for their admission process. BSFIS provides social volunteering from as early as Grade 5. The depth and breadth of experience that students get from social service help in effectively developing their leadership skills from an early age. It also gives them an advantage when it comes to submitting letters of recommendation for college applications and scholarships.
Community service especially helps those students who are struggling with studies and are stressed by engaging them in activities which have a larger and more positive impact on society. This boosts their confidence and creates a sense of pride and responsibility within them. Thus, community service acts as an important tool to streamline and channel the potential of students in the right direction.
We take our students to visit the Adivasi community of Kusgaon village near Lonavala. We aim to mobilise the Adivasi children towards education. We do so by building a rapport with the children by distributing food and gradually motivating them toward learning. We distribute books, learning materials, and stationery. Students see the real-time hardships faced by the community which goes on to develop empathy, responsibility, and compassion within them.
We celebrate Daan Utsav every year on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and our Founder’s Day where students give their toys, stationery, books, and clothes to old age homes, specially-abled schools, orphanages and NGOs.
Students form a workforce that manages and executes the Diwali fare every year. Students from all grades came forward to make hand-crafted diyas, postcards, lanterns, garlands, etc. which were put on sale. The proceeds from this were donated to needy organisations and NGOs as part of the Daan Utsav project. Students additionally gain hands-on experience in honing their organisational and operational skills.
We organise an annual Master Chef competition where students prepare delicacies and offer them to their fellow students. The funds raised from the activity are distributed for the welfare of old age homes, underprivileged children’s centres, NGOs, and needy organisations.
Let’s Be Well Red (LBWR) is a non-profit social venture that aims to combat the widespread prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia in India through the manufacture of iron-rich nutritional bars called Gudness Bars. This initiative by Rajvi Mehta from Duke University and students at Brown University had our students volunteering for spreading awareness of anaemia and distributing the Gudness bars to anaemia-affected women.
Shortly after the devastating floods in Kashmir Valley, our Principal together with a few parents and students visited Kashmir to reach out to the flood-affected victims. Our Bright Start Pre-School turned into the collection centre, and it was inundated with relief materials sent from our generous parents and their relatives. These donation kits were packed and dispatched by cargo to the flood-affected areas of Kashmir.
Cyclonic Storm Hudhud caused extensive damage and loss of life in eastern India in October 2014. Our school mobilised financial aid and relief materials to help the victims. This mobilisation had large-scale participation from the students.
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