Empowering Education in Rural Regions
Supporting Education and Innovation.
We work with children living in rural and urban extreme poverty to improve their access to a quality education, particularly focusing on marginalized groups including girls, orphans and children with disabilities.
A quality education is vital to increasing children’s chances of achieving qualifications and improving their earning opportunities. Our involvement ranges from running teacher training courses to improving school infrastructure. We consult children to find out what inhibits their access to good education – such as child labor – and develop projects to help them overcome obstacles.
Running activities like after-school clubs, holiday programmes and children’s assemblies underpins the core skills children learn at school and reduces the risk of dropping out. These activities also provide opportunities to raise children’s awareness of their right to education, and help them advocate for their own education.
About the Trust
Smt. Jawala Devi Memorial Trust (SJDMT), Sanghol (India), in the pursuit of highest ideals, rooted in the Indian educational traditions and ethos, reinforced by modern Indian philosophy of humanism, tolerance, reason and truth, has been engaged in promoting higher education in rural Punjab since 2005. Located in village Sanghol, on Chandigarh-Ludhiana Highway, known globally for its historical and archaeological significance, Cordia Group of Institutes is committed to make Sanghol a knowledge hub and Centre for excellence, aims at transformation of rural society into a bustling community with modern amenities and higher standards of living. Its underlying philosophy that a knowledge based society liberates human mind and develops into an enabling socio-economic community has been central to SJDMT’s ongoing educational endeavours. The ideals and programmes are executed and carried out under the inspiring guidance, support and dynamic leadership of The Rt. Hon’ble Lord Diljit Rana. With his commitment to provide education at people’s doorstep, the ongoing educational programmes under the auspices of SJDMT, are founded on the philosophy “Providing Urban Facilities in Rural Areas” (PURA), propounded by late Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, in 2003. Since its inception, each day is a commitment to empower youth, bring about social transformation in the lives of downtrodden and the marginalized sections of the society.
Educating the Young
The Trust aims at the overall development growth of the students and strives to inculcate in them a positive and healthy, physical, emotional and intellectual attitude. Efforts are so directed as to develop in them consciousness towards social obligations, appreciation of Indian art, culture, music, dance and yoga, together as these combines to form the hard care of a well-balanced personality.
The objective of the school is to equip the students mentally, physically and culturally to become worthy citizens of free India, to zealously guard and retain its noble traditions and make progress in a modern, scientific way. The school tries to develop qualities of initiative and leadership in students mind and spirit, and hence are best suited to serve their country, best fitted to lead others and are best trained to fulfill their own dreams and aspirations.
Continuing Education for Teachers
We create bespoke continuing education programs to address the needs of teachers and their student communities. From training on the latest technology to new pedagogical methods, we help teachers make their classrooms engaging and successful.
Support for Communities
NNEdPro's Teaching Kitchens project empowers communities by sharing knowledge and skills through the medium of nutrition education. It aims to enhance health and wellbeing for women, children and families across communities, especially urban slums, as well as beyond. The mothers, who are based in slum settings and often work as household assistance, were then supported to begin the next phase of the project by initiating a micro-enterprise model.
Centre for Respect & Understanding
The Centre for Respect & Understanding is established within the Cordia Group of Institutes in Sanghol, a village of archaeological and historical significance located in Punjab. Sanghol's rich cultural heritage reaches back from the late Harappan era and the Kushan period to Mughal and Sikh history. The Cordia Group of Institutes owes its creation to the drive and vision of Lord Diljit Rana, Baron of Malone, who is Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom and Honorary Consul for India to Northern Ireland. Committed to transforming the state of rural education at his birthplace in Sanghol, Punjab, Lord Rana established a non-profit education campus, Cordia Group of Institutes. It was inaugurated by former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in 2006.
“With the support from Lord Rana Foundation Charitable Trust U.K, we have been able to serve our students better than ever.”
We support students in all three phases;
from School > to College > to Corporate
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
Info@cordia.edu.in
Phone
+91 8727045001 | 01628255930