G.Y.M Project
Growth. The GYM project aims to create ideal citizens able to hold their own in life. The primary focus of the project is on underprivileged children, specifically first generation learners. The goal is not just to improve their academic grades, but to foster all-round development in moral, social, cultural, physical, economic, and intellectual sectors. The goal is to motivate youn
g people to work hard, work as teams, learn discipline, acquire courage and tenacity, and to be compassionate to others less fortunate. The ideal is nothing less than complete mental and physical development. The program will be binary segregated into mental and physical development. On the physical side the focus will be on building stamina and fitness. Exercises, drills, PT, and games will be conducted to usher in spirit and elan, confidence and killer instincts, and most importantly fraternity and unity. For girls there will be an additional segment of training to protect themselves from molestation in public, r**e in private, abuse at the hands of family or strangers. On the mental side the primary focus will be improving school work and school grades and to develop understanding of academic syllabuses. On the co-curricular program there will be vocational training, individual attention to nurture talent in singing, dancing, sports, painting, sculpting, debate etc. There will be lessons in logic and rhetoric, arguments and rationality, social survival, and a moral responsibility. The project aims at nurturing a sense of right and wrong in the young people and to enable them to stand up for themselves, and on behalf of others too weak to fight. A lot of effort in being made in schools to create something like the aims noted above. However, the student-teacher ratio is dismal, and individual attention is dismal. Duplicating school work should be avoided, focusing instead on the things schools do not provide, such as attention, affection, adoration, and all-round training.
