Cultivating Minds: Education - The Soil for Growth
Seeds of Knowledge: Cultivating Education for Lifelong Growth
Seeds Foundation provides a range of education, training and employability projects aimed primarily at workless adults and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and deprived communities from third world countries.
SEEDS model school has a history of serving local and needy children and it has so since 1994, this school has not only benefited up to 3000 children orphans but has also given them an opportunity to study from nursery to secondary school level.
A School's Journey Through the Earth's Tremors
The history of the school can be divided into 2 eras. The first era is from 1994 to 8th October 2005 when the horrific earthquake occurred. The earth quake killed in an almost instant, over 80,000 people on the morning of 8th of October 2005, and left about 3 million people homeless. At that dreadful time there were about 300 students studying at the school, 17 children lost their lives and nearly 30 children were injured. The school building completely collapsed destroying the whole structure. It was therefore a big challenge to rehabilitate the school, because the city of Muzaffarabad was severally hit and most of the buildings had collapsed.
Rising from the Rubble
The second era is after October 2005, when a new life was started in very different way. The school was once again resumed using tents from December 2005 and we are pleased to say that we have been running the school up till now with same zeal and zest.
There are 150 children studying in this school currently and nearly 70% are orphans and needy. These orphans are sponsored and are getting:
Free education,
Free Uniform
And free books
The project is serving the needs of the effects of the earthquake and is contributing towards their socio economic and educational development.
