St. Thomas School
Indirapuram
Gyan Khand II, Indirapuram Ghaziabad - 201014 (U.P)
+0120-4961300, 01204961301
stthomas.irpm@gmail.com
The school runs an afternoon informal education classes for the underprivileged children of construction labourers and rickshaw pullers who stay in huts in the periphery of the school. The hundred plus children of different age groups are given informal education, sports, music, and dance training by a group of our own teachers who have volunteered for the same. The classes start from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm. The students are given refreshment every day after the class and full meal on every Tuesday by the teachers. They are given uniform, study materials free of cost. A few of them who are able to cope up with CBSE English medium syllabus are absorbed into our main school every year and given free education, uniform, study materials etc. Some of them are admitted by us into open school system.
On the 21st of every month, students are encouraged to donate a portion of their pocket money to this program run by the teachers and students. The collected amount is used for various charity ventures. The noble venture 'Share if you Care' gives each Thomasanian the opportunity to awaken himself to the needs and desires of fellow schoolmates who are less privileged than him. By this, the students learn about caring and sharing and to make themselves sensitive towards their responsibilities.
The third week of every December, each student is asked to bring any edible item of any quantity. A list of preferred items of daily use is given to each section of every class. A huge quantity of food materials and daily useful items are gathered and distributed to the poor families of Hope children, NGOs, old age homes, leprosy homes, charity homes, etc. Food cooked out of those materials is also distributed to the Hope children and outside slum dwellers.
A brand-new fridge is kept at the main gate, which is filled with fruits, fruit juices, and buttermilk brought by students to be distributed to any hungry person. Two hundred students of one class are motivated every day to bring either a food packet of chapati and vegetables or fruits, fruit juices, or buttermilk. At least 100 of them do bring. Food packets are distributed immediately, and other items are preserved in the fridge for later. Now the word has spread to neighboring areas that kids, rickshaw pullers, and even from Vaishali metro station beggars come regularly expecting something to quench their thirst and hunger.