CSR - Gairatpur Baas Panchayat School

16years

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Captain Martin Howard MBE

Founder of the Gairatpur Baas Panchayat School

Martin Howard arrived in Delhi as a Naval Advisor in 1984. He then worked with Rolls Royce Engine in India for a few years. When the time has come, where others would plan for a peaceful retirement in a cottage in the Wales, Martin and Annie started a new ambitious project: building their new home ‘Tikli Bottom’ and changing the future of the villages around them. By founding a school and implementing a unique education philosophy, with a focus on developing female alumni full potential and talents.

Our Purpose

To ensure that every child in the three villages of the Panchayat should have the opportunity to good education. Good being defined as one which teaches them to think as well as to remember, and which will send them out into the world to be good and thoughtful citizens, speaking English.

Our Donors

Testimonial

Marelli is one of the World's leading Global independent suppliers to the automobile sector with a strategy of pioneering progress together. For many years Marelli India has been instrumental in supporting BET long term mission to educate the poor. The commitment institutionalized by the founder Martin Howard has been impactful in building and expanding it to what it is today. Children completing education from GBPS year on Year certainly will bring overall development of the community around.

Marelli

COWI is a Danish based engineering company whose vision is Together SHAPING A SUSTAINABLE AND LIVEABLE FUTURE. We are committed to a long term support to BET because we share the same vision and values, and because we have experienced for some years now , that BET is a partner we can trust in the way our funds are managed and utilized , and because we can see the tremendous positive impact the education provided by the school brings to the villagers. We invite Volunteers and donors to visit the school and help us in whatever way they can.

COWI

Our Community

The school is located inthe middle of lush fields ringed by the Araveli hills. The school lies on village common land, which has been nominated for 33 years for educational purposes via a panchayat resolution. The panchayat presides over three villages – Gairatpur Bass, Kheda and Pandala. Their combined population is around 2000. Basic occupation of the villagers is Agriculture and Dairying. Parents are mostly illiterate and can give their children little scholastic help. Noticeably in the last few years, we’ve noticed that boys and girls from these villages have become more motivated and aspirational.