The Lions Schools Programme
This project was conceived when Lion Lali Sokhi and Lion Ravi Sokhi were approached by the village elders to provide them with a permanent place for school. They stressed for a Nursery School that will help the needy children with a good start of education. The Nursery School would house children from 9 neighbouring villages. The ‘Needy Children’ were from the families who could not afford to send their children to school in town centers. It was emphasized that a village school would have to be affordable in terms of both travel expenses and school fees. Some of these children would probably not even be able to afford a school uniform or textbooks.
After much persuasion from the village elders, we decided to donate the use of a piece of land we had inherited in the village. The objective was to build a Nursery School in place of a derelict property in the village of Nurpur, India. The project cost was assessed to cost about 15,000 pounds. With good support of fellow lions, friends and the general public, the project started . Funds were raised by organized dinners, dances and other events.
The school began as Lions Nurpur Public School, with just 8 students and today we have more than 140 students and many enquiries are being received daily. We are confident that this school will be overwhelmed in time to come. This school in a remote village is one of a kind. It has all the necessary facilities for not only the young children of the village but the teenagers too in that we are also providing computer training and english language for those who wish to practice it further. At present we proudly provide education for pre-nursery, nursery, LKG, UKG, Classes 1,2,3,4,5 and 6th. The Lions Nurpur Public School has now become Godiva Lions Coventry Public School.
After the enquiries we have had, we feel that we could do better in the times ahead. We would be grateful to all the Lions for their further support to progress for better as we want the students of this school to be good in english.We encourage the practice of english language for the betterment of our next generation as english is an international or Global language.
We are encouraging parents also to use the facilities provided by the school. Parents can come to the school in their free hours to learn english language and computers etc.In the leisure time the students of the school are sent to the village to do the community work which can make them learn to imbibe the social values better.