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When 10 wide-eyed girls from the utmost northbound of India met their counterparts from the utmost south, it was a infinitesimal filled with curiosity, wonder, and understanding. The 10 students from the Government Higher Secondary School, Kothibagh, Srinagar, Kashmir, visited Kozhikode connected Monday (October 13) arsenic portion of their survey circuit to the Government Vocational Higher Secondary School for Girls, Nadakkavu. The sojourn aimed to recognize the translation that took spot astatine Nadakkavu nether the PRISM (Promoting Regional Schools to International Standards done Multiple Interventions) project.
The connecting thread betwixt the 2 schools is the Faisal and Shabana Foundation, which invested successful the Nadakkavu schoolhouse a decennary ago, converting it into 1 of the champion authorities schools successful the country. The Foundation has precocious launched the Dream School task successful Kashmir, with GHSS Kothibagh being the archetypal instauration to beryllium developed nether it.
The PRISM task was launched astatine GVHSS Nadakkavu successful 2012 arsenic the imagination inaugural of past Kozhikode North MLA A. Pradeep Kumar, with the Faisal and Shabana Foundation providing method and fiscal support. The schoolhouse received state-of-the-art infrastructure and landscaping astatine a outgo of ₹16 crore. The task went connected to animate the State authorities to make astir 1,000 akin schools crossed Kerala, portion the Foundation expanded the exemplary to different States, including Kashmir.
“The GHSS Kothibagh is being developed astatine a outgo of ₹20 crore. The archetypal phase, to beryllium inaugurated connected October 27, includes the operation of a caller gathering for the mediate school, which covers classes from Kindergarten to Standard 8. Smart classrooms and robotics grooming volition besides beryllium portion of the project,” said Sheikh Zahoor, task coordinator of the ‘Dream School’ task successful Kashmir. Besides Mr. Zahoor, 2 teachers — Maryam Akbar and Humaira Shah — accompanied the students from Classes 9 and 11 connected the Kerala visit.
The radical received a accepted percussion invited astatine GVHSS Nadakkavu nether the enactment of Principal Gireesh Kumar, on with Roshan John, programme coordinator associated with the Faisal and Shabana Foundation, and different squad members. The students aboriginal took portion successful interactive sessions earlier visiting the Government Higher Secondary School, Karaparamba, and the Kozhikode Corporation office. Mayor Beena Philip, who served arsenic Principal of GVHSS Nadakkavu erstwhile the PRISM task was implemented, besides interacted with the students from Kashmir.
