Raising the Bar

1. Satya Bharti School,
Sohian
Raising the
Bar
Students – Harsimran Kaur, Amanjot Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur, Simrandeep Kaur,
Sanpreet Kaur, Parwinder Singh, Harmandeep Singh, Sharanjit Singh
Teachers – Ms. Kushjeet Kaur & Mr. Gurpreet Singh

3. Feel
Our School is located in a small village called
Sohian in Punjab. The school is dedicated for
providing quality education to children and is
totally free of cost, providing students with not
only quality education but also books, uniforms,
and all material required in school for learning.
Our school started 4 years back but there was no
boundary or fencing around the school. As a
result, there were many concerns like stray
animals entering the school premises, breaking
of windows, damage to school property and
building etc. Also the school ground land filling
was not proper thus leading to water
accumulation during rainy season.
Thus, we greatly felt of having at least a fencing
around the school to minimize these incidents
and creating a safe environment for the school.
Also we felt to level the school ground so that
water is not accumulated there.

4. Feel – School

5. Imagine
Our first step in this process was that we
approached our Head Teacher to fix a
meeting with village “Sarpanch” seeking
his support and help.
Now, major challenge was the monetary
support we required for this project
covering an perimeter of 400 feet. Our
plan was to do wired fencing covering
the school four times for which we
needed 1200 feet of wire for fencing and
around 30 cement pillars, which total
amounted to approximately Rs. 15,000/-.
We decided to conduct a donation drive,
visiting every house of the village,
making them understand the project we Our Head Teacher Ms. Karamjeet
have undertaken and thus making it a Kaur with Sarpanch of the village.
community project.

6. Donation Drive

7. Donation Drive - continued

8. Do
After a donation drive lasting for 12 days we finally collected Rs. 13,000/-.
This amount would have done for fencing but we also wanted to level our
ground. Seeing our dedication and passion the Sarpanch of the village
promised us that he will arrange for the leveling of the ground for free. This
boosted our energy and we set off to fence our school boundary.
Our checklist included purchase of cement pillars and wire for fence. Then
second task was to arrange for labor to dig pits to install pillars. And finally it
was to fence the boundary.
After all this the Sarpanch has to fulfill his promise of leveling the school
ground.
Thus prepared we started our long wished project of raising a fence for our
school

11. School Ground Leveling

12. Share
At last, on 1st of October, one day before the Gandhi Jayanti, our school finally
had the fencing around the complete school.
The complete project has been very touching and close to our heart. We visited
every house of the village and met all the people. People donated to us as per
their capability. It has been a very touching experience for us. The community
made our project their own project and helped us in all possible way.
This was like a dream come true for all of us and will be in our heart always.
Still the vision is not over as now our next step in this project is to plant creepers
and flower plants to cover the fencing. Also, we are working on making a gate for
our school so that there is complete protection and safety after school hours.

13. Thank
You