On the
occasion of Nation Girl Child Day, we reiterate the mission of our school which
focuses on creating equal opportunities for girls in the field of education.
The school has been striving since 1992 to support, strengthen and empower
girls for a meaningful and ambitious life.
Do listen
to Ms Bimla Bissell, the wife of Fabindia’s founder, the late John Bissell, on
her views and aspirations for the girl child.
Empowering girl child through education at The Fabindia School
My name is Swabhi Parmar and I completed my schooling from The Fabindia School in 2013.I joined the school back in 2006, The moment I drove up to The Fabindia School I knew this was going to be the school for me. Not only did I love the atmosphere, my mother loved it too. The school is on a nature reserve which makes the learning environment a peaceful and beautiful place to learn and study. Each and every teacher I had not only taught us the syllabus that I understood, but they also all taught us morals and how to be upstanding citizens. I'd also like to mention that I was a scholarship student for the entirety of my education at The Fabindia School. It was an honour for me and many other girls. "Empowering the girl child through education" was the school's motto. It gave the school's female students a lot of opportunities. As a student, the school taught me life lessons, and co-curricular activities aided in my overall development. And today, I am glad to tell that I have been employed as an educator at The Fabindia School for the past four years. From a student to an educator, it's been an incredible experience. The Fabindia School is not your typical school. I considered it my safe haven. If I could give any advice to parents or students considering this school, take advantage of the wonderful opportunities that The Fabindia School has to offer.
Swabhi Parmar
Ex- Student and Educator
My Life Journey
Twelve years I was cut off from all kinds of educational activities, it was a tough time to be disconnected from the things I loved and enjoyed. I worked as a housewife looking after my kids, in-laws and the other family members. It was contentment to be able to look after your family but my passion to do something about my educational persuasions and my eagerness to learn more & more was equally bothering me. I was sure that some day I will be able to make my way through. My motto was, ‘Where there is a will there's a way’ and that did not allow me to lose hope. The ray of hope along with my strong will power, positive attitude & confidence helped me to find my way out. My passion for reading helped me to keep in touch with my studies. As a girl child I had faced many challenges. I come from a society where girls are only given elementary education. Everyone opposed that I should drop out after eighth but because my parents supported not just standard eighth but I am an alumnus of Sophia High School. Then I completed my graduation from MLSU, Udaipur. I did my post graduation in English & B. Ed. from IGNOU, New Delhi.
Troubles didn’t stop here, to take up a job was like climbing Mt. Everest but I patiently overcome this obstacle too . I wanted to do something for the girl child. I wanted to help the girl child of the rural area and when I heard about The Fabindia School & its motto to empower girl child through education I thought I could do something for the girl child and so I joined The Fabindia School in 2004 as I wanted to work for my own growth and work for the all round development of the students.
As time passed I have groomed my personality & have also learnt a lot. I with the Fabindia team, have also worked a lot in creating a healthy learning & quality environment for the students. To develop core skills in the students we established a platform in 2012 where the students could express their ideas & creativity. This is where the journey of the School Weekly started. The School Weekly all these years have been instrumental in building peer-to-peer relationships, shaping their perspectives, opinions & identity.
Since 2012, the Editorial Board of the School has put together 499 editions and we celebrate our 500th edition on 24th January 2022.
Thanks to all who contributed enthusiastically in keeping this platform alive and rockin. With time the weekly has become more creative & nurtured the skills of the students. The young minds are bubbled with fresh ideas and the weekly was the best way to capture it in a creative manner. The weekly has played a pivotal role & built communication between all stakeholders.
Bharti Rao/ Educator
My Experience
It was 2006 when I entered the gates of The Fabindia School, I was so happy and keen to join this new school as every kid is, got new books, bag and notebooks. All my note book had the name of the school written on them, “The Fabindia School” but these notebooks had something had something very different and unique too, below the name of school there is a line written 'Empowering the girl child through education’ I was quite baffled at that point of time that what does it mean! Then as days passed on I got to know that, this was and is the motto of the school. As Bali happens to be rural part of Rajasthan this school was conceptualised with a motto of empowering the girl child. Earlier girl child was not given that much of chance to study, so with this vision the school tries to empower and encourage girls to study. This might looks very fancy to see or hear but when it's come to the execution it’s not that easy, to make this possible the school used to wave off full fees so that the parents could afford education for their girls too. This is to encourage the locals to send their girl child to get better education . Empowering is a process enabling individuals to understand the relationship between their actions and outcomes, allowing people the power to achieve the results they desire. School got tremendous success as the admission ratio was 1:1 at a point of a time and I was so happy to see the vision taking the shape and happy to be part of this beautiful and courageous family as an alumnus and an educator at the school.
Arvind Singh Sonigara
यह 2006 की बात है जब मैंने स्कूल में प्रवेश किया, मैं बहुत खुश था और हर बच्चे की तरह नए स्कूल में प्रवेश करने के लिए उत्सुक था, मुझे नई किताबें, बैग और नोटबुक मिलीं और द फैबइंडिया स्कूल में स्कूल के नाम के नीचे हर नोटबुक पर एक लाइन लिखी हुई थी। उस समय की दृष्टि हो या आदर्श वाक्य हो, लेकिन मेरे लिए यह नई बात थी कि वह 'शिक्षा के माध्यम से बालिकाओं को सशक्त बनाना' था। मैं उस समय काफी हैरान था कि इसका क्या मतलब है, जैसे-जैसे दिन बीतते गए, मुझे पता चला कि इस ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में यह स्कूल बालिकाओं को सशक्त बनाने के उद्देश्य से खोला गया है, क्योंकि पहले बालिकाओं को इतना मौका नहीं दिया जाता था। इस आदर्श वाक्य के साथ अध्ययन करने का मौका स्कूल उन्हें सशक्त बनाने और प्रोत्साहित करने का प्रयास करता है। अब यह देखने, पढ़ने और सुनने में बहुत अच्छा लगता है लेकिन जब इसे अमल में लाने की बात आती है तो यह इतना आसान नहीं है, इसलिए इसे संभव बनाने के लिए एक नियम मौजूद है, मुझे याद है कि लड़कियों को केवल 50% फीस देनी होती है। यह स्थानीय लोगों को बेहतर शिक्षा प्राप्त करने के लिए अपनी बच्चियों को भेजने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करने के लिए है। सशक्तिकरण एक प्रक्रिया है जो व्यक्तियों को उनके कार्यों और परिणामों के बीच संबंधों को समझने में सक्षम बनाती है, जिससे लोगों को उनके इच्छित परिणाम प्राप्त करने की शक्ति मिलती है। स्कूल को जबरदस्त सफलता मिली क्योंकि एक समय में प्रवेश अनुपात 1: 1 था और मैं बहुत खुश था इस सुंदर, विस्तृत और साहसी परिवार का हिस्सा बनने के लिए दृष्टि को आकार लेते और खुश होते देखने के लिए।
चाहे दौलत हो या शोहरत , भरपूर हो ✅
हर एक आँगन में इक बेटी जरूर हो ✨।
अरविंद सिंह सोनीगरा
साप्ताहिकी की यात्रा
वर्ष 2012 से नियमित रूप से स्कूल साप्ताहिकी (Weekly) का प्रकाशन होता आया है। साप्ताहिकी में सप्ताह भर की आयोजित गतिविधियों का लेखा रहता है। खेल की उपलब्धि हो या विज्ञान के प्रयोग या कोई अन्य प्रतियोगिता। स्कूल में विषयवार सप्ताह आयोजित होते है जैसे- हिंदी सप्ताह, विज्ञान सप्ताह, अंग्रेजी सप्ताह इत्यादि इन विषयवार सप्ताह में उस विषय से संबंधित कई आयोजन होते है तथा इन आयोजनों में प्रतियोगिताएँ भी होती है। विजेता छात्र-छात्राओं की जानकारी साप्ताहिकी के द्वारा प्रसारित होती है। इससे विद्यार्थी भी गर्वान्वित महसूस करते है। समय-समय पर विद्यालय में किन-किन कार्यक्रमों का आयोजन हुआ, इसकी जानकारी साप्ताहिकी के द्वारा अभिभावकों तक भी पहुँचती है। अध्यापकों और विद्यार्थियों के विचार आलेख के रूप में साप्ताहिकी में स्थान पाते है। इस साप्ताहिकी का प्रकाशन अध्यापकों द्वारा किया जाता था किन्तु वर्तमान में इसके सम्पादकीय समूह में विद्यार्थियों को अधिक स्थान मिल रहा है। जो विद्यार्थी इसके संपादकीय समूह से जुड़े हुए है, वे बड़े उत्साह पूर्वक होकर सामग्री का संकलन करते है। एक तरह से कहा जाए कि साप्ताहिकी विद्यालय का आइना है, तो असमंजस नहीं होगा। विद्यार्थी स्वयं संवाददाता की भूमिका निभाता है, ऐसी स्थिति में साप्ताहिकी में केवल उन्ही कार्यों को स्थान मिलता है, जो वास्तविकता में आयोजित हुए है। छोटे-छोटे बालक-बालिकाएँ भी अपनी कलम से कुछ लिखते हैं तो उसे साप्ताहिकी में स्थान मिलता है। कई बालक चित्रकारी में कुशल होते हैं उनकी कला का प्रदर्शन इसी साप्ताहिकी के पटल पर होता है।
समय-समय पर साप्ताहिकी में आवश्यकतानुसार बदलाव होते रहे है। जैसे-जैसे तकनिकी के क्षेत्र में वृद्धि हुई वैसे-वैसे बदलाव भी आते गए। पहले इस साप्ताहिकी की पहुँच कम लोगों तक थी किंतु अब यह पहुँच अधिक हो रही है। अभिभावकों से भी आग्रह है कि विद्यालय की साप्ताहिकी का अवलोकन अवश्य करें आपको घर बैठे पूरे सप्ताह की जानकारी मिलेगी कि विद्यालय में क्या चल रहा है।
हमारा विद्यालय प्रारंभ से ही बालिका शिक्षा को बढ़ावा देता आया है। इसके लिए छात्रवृत्ति का भी निर्धारण किया गया है। आवश्यकतानुसार बालिकाओं को इसका लाभ मिलता रहा है। कई बालिकाएँ आज भी छात्रवृत्ति पर अध्ययन कर रही है और कई बालिकाएँ अध्ययन कर उच्च शिक्षा की ओर अग्रसर हुई है। संभावना थी कि शुल्क देने में असमर्थ बालिकाओं की शिक्षा प्राप्ति की दौड़ बीच में ही रुक सकती थी। अधिकांश अभिभावक बेटे को निजी विद्यालय में पढ़ाते थे लेकिन बेटियों को नहीं। परन्तु फैबइंडिया स्कूल ने उनकी आशाओं को पर लगा दिए ओर इस दौड़ में उन्हें भी पिछड़ने नहीं दिया। इनमें से कई बालिकाओं के आलेख साप्ताहिकी के जरिए पढ़ने को मिले है कि किस प्रकार उन्होंने यहाँ अध्ययन कर आगे भी उपलब्धियाँ अर्जित की। उन्होंने अपने अनुभव साप्ताहिकी में साझा किए हैं, जो अभी विद्यार्थियों के लिए प्रेरणास्वरूप है।
कृष्ण गोपाल / वरिष्ठ अध्यापक
एक अनभिज्ञ सफ़र की शुरुआत
मैने सेकेंडरी कक्षा अन्य विद्यालय से की है। अभी ग्यारहवीं कक्षा में यहां प्रवेश लिया है। ऐसी कोई गतिविधि पहले की स्कूल में नहीं होती थी। अतः मैं इन सब से अनभिज्ञ था। यहां जब editorial board का हिस्सा बना तो पहले तो मैं डर सा गया था की यह क्या चीज है अगर मुझसे कुछ गलत हो गया तो क्या होगा इस तरह के खयाल आने लगे लेकिन अपने आप को संभाला और एक नया अवसर मिला तो यह अवसर ले कर में इन सब बातों से परिचित हो पाया। एक editor ke रूप मे काम करना मेरे लिए सुनहरा अवसर है। नई नई पोस्ट पढ़ना, उनको स्कूल के छात्रों से इकट्ठी करना, किसी को ग्राफिक्स या स्केच के लिए कहना और लिखने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करना एक नया अनुभव है। इसका हिस्सा बनने के कही फायदे है जैसे विभिन्न लेख पढ़ते समय हमारी कल्पना सकती बढ़ती है, कही काल्पनिक लेखों से हमारी कल्पना और रचना शक्ति में इजाफा होता है, Editing करते समय हिंदी तथा अंग्रेजी के नए नए शब्द देखना यह मेरी शब्दावली को मजबूत करते है और बढ़ाते है तथा व्याकरण को मजबूत करते है, हर वक्त एक नई जानकारी मिलेगी यह सोचकर मन प्रफुल्लित होता है और हफ्ते के पहले ही दिन से weekly का इंतजार करता रहता हूं। एक editor के रूप में एक नई पहचान बनी है विभिन्न शिक्षक और छात्रों से अच्छे संबंध बने। पहले जब कोई कुछ लिखने के लिए देता या बोलता तो कतराता परंतु अब में अपने लेख लिख कर भी अपनी weekly का हिस्सा बनता हूं । इसका हिस्सा बन मुझमें आत्मविश्वास और उत्सुकता की भावना में बढ़ोतरी हुई है, मैं विद्यालय परिवार का हमेशा आभारी रहूंगा कि मुझे यह अवसर प्रदान किया । मोहम्मद अनस/ XI Science
सीमा चौधरी / XI Science
My experience of being member of editorial board
I had always seen the news weekly sent to my class group. And had also seen some seniors wearing batches of editorial board and I was always curious that what is an editorial board? And then I learned that the editorial board is a group of students and teachers who publish our school weekly. I always wanted to be a part of this group and finally I got this opportunity and became a member of the editorial board. It was completely a new experience for me. I have learned a lot from this place and will continue to learn. Encouraging children to write, reading articles written by them and doing corrections, all the tasks made me develop my writing and reading skills a lot. Earlier, when someone used to ask me to write, then it was very difficult for me, but till now I write my own articles and post them on the weekly, now if someone asks me to write on any topic, it would be easy for me. My view on the editorial board is that it is a place where children get to learn new things. Here students themselves are the editors. It helps in developing responsibility taking skills in students. It also improves my vocabulary as I get to learn new words when I read the posts. I am very grateful to the teachers and principal ma'am for having an editorial board in the school. Ritu parihar / IX
A Step Of Being Responsible
Himanshi Rajpurohit / IX
The Fabindia School - Building careers for tomorrow
I've been a student at The Fabindia School since 2010. My school does a lot for us, including news and weekly events, which are very significant for our future. What does this mean for our future? Yes, it is really significant since it allows us to assess our abilities and determine how good or poor our language is, as well as develop our thinking power. Also, we can learn about what is going on at our school by reading the news weekly, just as we can learn about what is going on in our country by reading the newspaper. I've been a member of the editorial board for a year and have noticed or felt several changes in myself, such as improved language, writing, and thinking. As a result of this evolution, I propose to all of us that we not only study but also participate in extracurricular activities that will benefit us in the future.
Dhawan Choudhary / IX
Fabindia School : Source of Motivation
I have been studying in the Fabindia school since 2013 . Here students are involved in so many activities and that's the best part of our school. Since the weekly was started in our school in 2012 . As I was a kid I never knew about the weekly. When I was in 7tn or 8th standard. I usually see the articles with the pictures hung on the boards of each block. I always wondered who did all these efforts. Then I came to know that members of the editorial board do all this. I have always seen my seniors wearing badges of the editorial board group, and I always wished to be a part of the editorial group. But when I joined the editorial board's group I was a little nervous and scared that I will able to do all my duties properly and the tasks or not. But while doing all the work I realized that it is not a very big task to do. Our role typically requires a few hours of every week on tasks such as consulting with editors, recruiting authors, or reviewing opinions. While doing all this work we developed so many qualities in us, we felt more responsible and it also became more discipline and communication skills. While weekly is being published each it inspires the children to write because articles are published in weekly with the name of the writer and with their pictures. When other students see weekly it inspires and motivates the students to write.I am very thankful to the Principal ma'am and teachers for giving us the opportunity to be a part of the editorial board group.
Kunjan Kunwar Rathore / Xll
As we celebrate the 500th edition of our News Weekly; the remarkable journey that started with a Newsletter to a weekly. Our students, staff and alumni share their love and laughter with the community to keep them updated with life beyond school. News Weekly has given an exhilarating platform to young writers, editor, composers and publishers to fine tune their skills. Young writer, editors have bloomed into full-fledged bloggers. On this occasion we congratulate our writers and editors for achieving the landmark of 500th edition. We extend our special gratitude to Bharti ma’am for championing the weekly for over a decade, we also extend our gratitude to Monika ma’am and Swabhi ma’am for stepping into the shoes of Bharti ma’am.
Volume No. 500 Published by The Editorial Board: Mr. Jitendra Suthar, Ms. Swabhi Parmar, Ms. Jyoti Sain, Mr. Arvind Singh, Pushpendra Singh Ranawat, Tamanna Solanki, Kritika Rajpurohit, Kanak Gehlot, Kunal Rajpurohit, Harshit Rajpurohit, Ronak Deora, Mohammad Anas.
