OBJECTIVES
The House of Light School provides:
- Awareness among the community, authorities, families and parents of the importance of quality education for the future of individuals, the region and the country.
- Education to raise the children as self confident, responsible, discerning and law abiding citizens with a moderate and balanced outlook on life.
- Self confidence by ensuring that all receive respectful treatment as equal members of society, regardless of social, economic, educational or cast level, sex, creed or language.
- Responsibility of individuals for their own lives and families as well as consciousness of their social environment and its problems. Solidarity with needy people.
- Encouragement to take suitable decisions and to put them into action, facing problems, conflicts and setbacks with confidence and ambition in order to improve one's own situation.
- Human and social values based on humanism and the Koran.
- Enlightenment about rights and duties in the spheres of family, society, and nation.
- Channelling of energies towards a positive and constructive identity in order to prevent extremism and fundamentalism of any kind.
- Learning of democratic structures.
- Instruction about the culture, customs, religion and history of Pakistan and the world in an open-minded, tolerant and respectful way, giving individuals the space to develop their own opinions.
- Consciousness about health issues (marriage to close family members, hygiene, dental health, etc.)
- Awareness and know-how to prevent pollution and to protect the natural environment.
- Contribution to economic, social and national development of the area.
- Perspectives for improvement of the economic level, offering future access to high-level education and professions.
- Qualification and training of teachers of other schools to help them provide quality education to their students.
- Contribution to the development of the area through employment of local staff, raising the profile of the region.
- Prevention of child labour.
This project is entirely run from inside Pakistan with support provided by individuals, bodies and non-government organizations of other countries. |