Recycling Program “Selling to Save”
- Visiting houses to educate the people to collect paper, glass and tin for recycling.
- Money from the above to be saved by each family for which boxes have been provided.
- Cloth bags provided for the above purpose.
- Clean neighborhood
- Encourage cleanliness by making dustbins for each home as a project of the Arts & Crafts classes. Large drums are provided to use as waste bins in neighborhood streets and alleys
- Students distributed nets to their neighborhood fruit vendors promoting health and hygiene leading to good health in the community.
The Garage School Bank
TGS has introduced the TGS Bank in January 2010. Shabina promoted the habit of saving in children by encouraging them to set aside their meager pocket money in the “gullaqs” (piggy banks) at school to but what they wanted. And at the school annual function, the children got what they wanted – gold earrings and bicycles from Mobilink.
The piggy banks have now been converted into personal accounts at Bank Al Habib under the Young Savers scheme. To start an account, all the youngsters need is Rs. 5.As their deposits grow, for every Rs. 50, Shabina will add Rs. 5, and for every Rs. 100, Rs. 10. With this incentive, children are eager to save and the parents are happy that their youngsters have some money saved up in the banks for future use. “Once the children are educated, they will work towards their goals and also understand the value of money.” says Shabina.
Field Trips and Extra Curricular Activities:
Shabina loves taking her ‘bachas’(students), or as she likes to call them, out. She has taken them to countless places inside and outside of Karachi. They have been to Sandspit, English Biscuit Factory, Makli even Thatta for the flood relief work. They have travelled to Lahore by air, to several other places by bus and train, they’ve done it all! “I would take them round the world had I enough resources!” she says.
- Future projects
- Cooking Classes
- Beautician Courses
- Electrical Workshop
- Budgeting
- Mobile library
- Four bed hospital room for emergency first aid