Service Projects
Selfless service is an integral component of the JYEP. We have to bear in mind that service plays a crucial role in society as it promotes collaboration, empathy and mutual growth. By actively involving the Junior Youth in acts of service, we hope that they would become inspired to contribute their share towards the well-being of others, create positive effects in their local communities and bring about meaningful changes wherever they reside.
It is very unfortunate that in today’s world, most people are only focused on their own material gains with the result that service is almost completely neglected. When thinking of service, people often think of grand schemes that require great human and financial resources. However, service at its core is the selfless act of providing assistance or support to others within one’s limited resources and capacities. It could encompass a wide range of activities aimed at fulfilling the basic needs of several individuals, communities or organisations by empowering people to take charge of their own lives and become active participants in the process of transforming the world.
Animator’s Training
JYEP in Pre-primary
Through the Junior Youth Empowerment Programme, the importance of service is emphasized greatly among the Junior Youth. In different branches of the City Montessori School, various service projects are initiated and organized regularly to emphasize the importance of service in today’s world and to help the Junior Youth to develop the needed attitudes and qualities that make service meaningful and effective.
As part of their service programmes, students of classes 6, 7 and 8 of CMS actively take part in teaching moral education to primary students and often act as assistant teachers in the Pre-Primary sections of the institution. They are also involved in ‘Each One, Teach One,’ campaign that is aimed at eradicating illiteracy from the city of Lucknow. This project teaches the importance of literacy and makes the Junior Youth understand that it is the duty of the educated people to teach the skills of reading and writing to at least one illiterate person, thus helping to completely eradicate illiteracy from the face of the country. In CMS, many students immerse themselves in this project during their summer vacations.
Many animators have realized the importance of the Junior Youth Empowerment Program and have taken the initiative of starting their own junior youth groups in their respective local neighbourhoods. The current junior youth groups are very limited in number, but with the help of co-ordinators, volunteers and animators, it would grow in size and would turn Lucknow into a model for the other cities to learn from.