This story seems like a fairy tale and is a fascinating reality. In February 2002, concerned citizens volunteered to join hands to do something real and practical for their community. They established Kot Radha Kishan Development Trust (KDT). They began to think of constructive ways to provide high-quality education in areas that had yet to experience modern civic and social facilities.
The Learning School has come a long way in its physical infrastructure, but the teaching staff makes this school apart from the rest. With a sixty-member teaching staff guided by an able Principal, the team’s hard work is paying off. This success is the excellent result the students obtained in the Metric examination. The Learning School is entirely an English medium school. Nevertheless, The Learning School’s young lights shined brilliantly by achieving high marks and first divisions in their science subjects.
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Kot Radha Kishan is situated 55 km south of Lahore. Administratively it is a sub-division of District Kasur. Kasur City is 35 km to the east, and Changa Manga, the first manufactured forest of Pakistani, is 15 km south of Kot Radha Kishan. The Main Peshawar-Karachi railway line passes through this town. Through metal roads, it is linked with Lahore-Raiwind, Changa Manga-Chunian, Pattoki, Kasur, and Phool Nagar.
The population of Kot Radha Kishan is about 1,55,000, with an annual growth rate of 2.7%, a household size of 7.4, and a literacy rate is about 69%.
On the other hand, the population of the surrounding villages of Kot Radha Kishan is about 60,000, with a literacy rate of about 35%. These surrounding villages depend on Kot Radha Kishan for a Railway Station, a Bus Stand, a Post Office, some Banks, Colleges, Girls’ High Schools, sub-division courts, crops and vegetable markets, and purchase items for their daily use.
The educated people of Kot Radha Kishan and the surrounding villages primarily depend on government and private jobs. Literate people of the town work as workers in the nearly industrial zone of Raiwind and Lahore, and illiterates from villages depend on agriculture. Small numbers of people have power looms industries also in their homes.
In Kot Radha Kishan, the government school system cannot cater to the needs of the fast-growing population mainly due to a lack of updated training for teachers, a student-teacher ratio that is more than 1:50, and a class size of more than 50. A network of private schools is also operating in the area, but their quality of education is a matter of grave concern. On the other hand, the higher English medium schools of the surrounding area go beyond the majority of the residents of Kot Radha Kishan and surrounding villages, with a fee ranging from PKR 8,000 to 10,000 per month.
A moment was started under the plate form of Liberal Forum Pakistan (LFP) in April 2001 to mobilise the citizens for their political education.
It was realised that LFP had established various chapters in Pakistan and was mobilising the citizens of Pakistan to participate in the newly established local government system. The citizens of Kot Radha Kishan realised a need for such a movement. With the consultation of some like-minded citizens, the LFP Kasur chapter was established on 27th April 2001.
LFP arranged several Seminars and Training Workshops in Kot Radha Kishan, and a Clean the City campaign was launched with the cooperation of the local government’s newly elected representatives; on 02nd September 2001, a thousand citizens participated and cleaned their city. On 10th November 2001, another campaign against narcotics/drugs was launched with the cooperation of Ayubia Health Club, where the young generation warned about the harmful effects of narcotics. In addition, the District Coordinator of Liberal Forum Pakistan arranged several lectures in local schools and colleges.
After attending the seminars and campaigns under the platform of Liberal Forum Pakistan, the citizens of Kot Radha Kishan were enthusiastic about doing much more for their town. They realised they dearly needed a school that would provide quality education to the students in semi-urban and rural areas.
In November 2001, a group of citizens of Kot Radha Kishan, including union nazims, naib nazims, councillors, teachers, medical doctors, business people, and some civil society members, started their weekly meetings to discuss the possibility of such a good school with an affordable tuition fee. Dr Farooq Ahmed Kunwar (late) was also requested to share his ideas during the sessions.
During the brainstorming discussion, several ideas were discussed, such as requesting the owners of good reputation schools to open their branches in the town, to sell the shares to the citizens of the city let them have the profit after the school is made, or to request some donor agencies for the opening a school.
At the same time, some of the members narrated the stories of the other good reputed schools. Finally, it was decided that the citizens should make their schools for their children. During the meetings and discussions, it was agreed that trust in the name of the town "Kot Radha Kishan Development Trust" should be established, and the school should run under this trust, and later on, some other project could be taken up. Dr. Farooq Kanwar was approached to prepare the feasibility for the school.
A leading physician of the town, Dr Noor Ahmed Akhtar, had already announced that he would donate ten kanal of land if the school were to be established. Later, he generously donated six acres more land for the school. After conducting the weekly meetings at Dr. Noor Ahmed Akhtar's residence, after about two months, Mr Muhammad Anwar, a social worker working in a German Foundation (Friedrich Naumann Stiftung), advised the panel that it was then clear that a school was to be built so each of the trust members should donate a minimum of PKR Two hundred thousand.
The Learning School has a motto of "Let's learn." It invites the students, teachers, parents, managers, and the community to learn from each other. The three main objectives of the school are: To provide an English medium environment where English is actively used as a language of communication and can help rural folk compete with urban people.
The essential credit that The Learning School gained from 2002 onwards is the Trust of the area's citizens built and are happy to admit their lovey kids at The Learning School.
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