Community Service

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen to others, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
- Barack Obama

An integral part of the curriculum at Pathways is the Community Service Programme – which ensures that students are not alienated from the real world. Our students genuinely believe that getting involved in community service teaches them to be compassionate and understanding human beings.

The students are initiated as early as the primary years and engage in community service activities at least once a week. While the Primary School students are entrusted with issues such as water conservation, hygiene and care of the environment, the Middle and Secondary level students engage in tasks like teaching ancillary staff, working with community schools, imparting adult education and establishing and running Balwadis.

Pathways has adopted 14 village schools in the villages of Aklimpur, Haryahera, Raisheena, Baas, Teekli,Sakatpur and Aravali Retreat. The costs forfaculty salaries, student uniforms, books, sports equipment, mid day meals and other supplies are borne by Pathways. Pathways has also set up borewells for hygienic water supply and created toilets for girls in the schools’ premises. Regular Student exchanges between our students and the village students are encouraged through sports activities and cultural programmes.

Pathways has also formed Interact Clubs in the schools. Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 14 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting.

Interact Club

About Rotary

Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.

About Interact

Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 14 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting.

Club membership varies greatly. Clubs can be single gender or mixed, large or small. They can draw from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools in the same community.

Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of

• Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
• Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
• Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
• Advancing international understanding and goodwill