Our Own English High School, Dubai

sewa
pioneers
award
Vikas Pota (right)
presents the Sewa
Pioneers Award
to Zoe Wheddon,
representative of Our
Own English High
School, Dubai
sewa day schools
winner
The Sewa Day project in schools is a week-long initiative that allows
individual establishments to host assemblies, explain the concepts of
sewa (“selfless service”), use the free classroom resources provided by
Sewa Day and organise activities that enable students to perform an act
of sewa either within the school or in the community.
case study
Our Own English High
School, Dubai
Our Own English High School, Dubai, undertook a mass Sewa Day tree planting project conducted
on Tuesday 9th of October 2012, in support of the One Million Trees Initiative, launched by H.H
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The event was jointly organized by the Dubai Police Academy and the Varkey Gems Foundation with a total of
200 saplings planted at the GEMS OOEHS Al Warqaa campus. “This project was a labour of love for all those
who were involved in it. We are all very proud of the new campus we moved into just a year ago. But the fact
that its sprawling grounds were so bare and brown always rankled with us. So when the idea was suggested
that we take part in the ‘A Million Trees’ initiative as part of Sewa Day we couldn’t help imagine how beautiful our
campus would look with several majestic trees growing on it.”
Total Number of Participants: 50 Primary boys aged 8-10 yrs, 30 Girl Guides aged 12- 17yrs, 20
School prefects aged 15- 17 yrs, 30 Neptune house prefects aged 13 - 17 Yrs, 50 Teachers of senior
school, 20 Admin staff and support staff.
Total Impact: 9000 students
Sewa Day is a registered charity (No: 1146848)
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