GOA 2012
Educating one child won't change the world – but, for that one child, the world will change forever.
Liahona Light
Liahona Light is located on Charao Island in southern Goa, 30 minutes' drive from some of the main tourist beaches of Calangute and the capital city of Panjim.
Liahona Light has been donated to the Educators Trust and they are desperately keen to renovate the school and provide a place where children from the nearby slums can come to live and learn in a safe environment.
Silcoates School wants to set up an on-going link between Liahona Light and it is hoped that the 2012 pioneering trip will be the first of many for Silcoates students over the coming years. Developing a long-term cross-cultural relationship with the school, its teachers and students is the best way to support the local communities and children. It will also present opportunities for students to learn about each other’s cultures and to develop a real sense of kinship across the years. This trip will therefore be the start of something very special.
Project 2012
The team members of Silcoates Goa 2012 will have the job of starting work on renovations for the school. There is much to be done, as the school is a large building with many rooms and large grounds. Work could include clearing the grounds, re-doing plaster and paintwork, small-scale renovation and minor building work.
The building is big enough to house four classrooms, one dormitory, a shower block, office and sun terrace, and it has two big gardens to the front and rear of the property.
The team will be supported by local skilled builders, to ensure any work they carry out is to a good standard and will last.
Clean the entire building.
Re-plaster one classroom, dormitory, shower room and sun terrace.
Paint wherever new plaster has been done.
Put in a new kitchen - the work will be done by qualified workmen only, but it will be funded by Silcoates.
Create a habitable space for at least 20 girls to enter the house by May 2012.
Project Aims
Additional Experiences
As well as the core project focus of the school, the students will also have the opportunity to spend time with some of the other Educators Trust staff members – helping on their outreach visits to the slums and with informal education in the two other schools they support. The students will get the chance to help teach the children in a range of areas, from English to sports.
We aim to return in 2014 to continue the work started by the 2012 team.
Students interested in medicine will also accompany Educators Trust’s qualified doctor, Dr Mistry, on his medical outreach visits. This will involve going into the slums. We will operate a rota system for project work and so team members will move between the building project, informal education sessions with the children and slum outreach.
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