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Education

International Sadguru Gurukulam Goa

International Sadguru Gurukulam (ISG)

Considering the modern era and the need to bring back quality education, Satguru Foundation started the residential school “International Sadguru Gurukulam” based on the most effective Gurukul education system, in the year 2018 at Kundaim, Ponda Goa.

Why International Sadguru Gurukulam ?

The generation today is much more preoccupied with modern lifestyle and their career related vying. Our culture and traditions hold less significance to them. Parents often realize the depth of the situation but tend to overlook as they find no cure to it. Every parent is liable to make his child strong enough to survive in this fast moving modern world, yet reviving vedic and most ancient Indian culture into them. H.H. Sadguru Brahmeshanandacharya Swamiji envisioned the forthcoming situation where the gene of moral conscience and ethical values would no more be expressed in the future generation and International Sadguru Gurukulam was found to be the ultimate cure to it keeping in mind the all-round development of the child. This formed the baseline behind the birth of this educational institution by Satguru Foundation.

Education System at ISG:

International Sadguru Gurukulam is the only residential school in Goa to give modern education based on the foundation of Gurukul. This educational programme extends learning beyond the academics to the social, ethical, physical, creative, and emotional development of every child. We also aim to engrave leadership qualities and humanitarian sciences, vigilance towards social issues and patriotism at large. Gayatri upasana being taught to the students help them increase their grasping power. After-school hours are used for learning with academic support from teachers on the campus. To ensure physical fitness and mental wellness, various Yoga classes, sports activities are conducted for students. Along with this, special physical education classes are designed. Students are given individual attention and counselling. Similarly, orientation programmes for students, teachers and parents are held periodically. This ensures that the students are in pace to meet the goals in academic and co-curricular activities. Students also get to interact with vedic scholars, seek divine guidance and blessings from great spiritual leaders across the globe.

Activities at ISG:

We ensure that the students enjoy learning and as they learn their skills are fine tuned to excel in future.

·         Field Trips – Field trips are organized to places like villages to study traditional lifestyles, various Goan heritage sites.

·         Innovative Ways of Learning Science – The scientific lessons are delivered to the students through practical experiments starting from the basic concepts. Students learn and then present their understanding through the demonstrations during science exhibition conducted in the school.

·         Sports (Indoor & Outdoor) – Sports activities are conducted to keep their body and mind in active state. Coaching is provided for sports such as volleyball, football, cricket, basketball, badminton as well as Indian sports such as kho kho, kabaddi and indoor games like Chess, Carom.

·         Yoga – Yoga being of utmost importance for physical and mental balance is being taught through regular yoga sessions. This ensures the students improve upon the stability of mind, concentration, control over the senses etc.

·         Art & Craft – Special art sessions are conducted where students get to express their ideas and thoughts in art form. This activity nurtures the creativity within each student.

·         Event Management – Various patriotic, cultural programmes are organized, through these programmes students are trained to do proper planning and execution of these events. This activity also ensures that apt decision making becomes a part of their life.

·         Music & Dance – The different forms of Indian Music and Dance forms refresh the mind. Also, students get to learn lessons of playing different musical instruments

·         Environmental Awareness – Environmental activities like tree plantation drive around the school campus and reduce-reuse-recycle concept imbibes the thought of Nature conservation in students.

·         Social Awareness  – Debates, Brainstorming sessions and group discussions are conducted focusing on the current social issues touching the educational, economic, political aspects of the society. This activity also nurtures the public speaking skills of the students.

It is the second home for the child

The residential school offers a healthy environment where each child is taken care of. It has all the provisions necessary to make the child feel at home. Best health care facilities are provided to ensure safety of the child. There is a full-time (24/7) doctor on-call facility, trained and qualified wardens / hostel superintendents.

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Women Empowerment

We believe that every woman harbours multiple talents within her and we aim to help her envision it, all for her betterment as well as for the subsequent generations and the world at large. In order to bring lasting change, women need the skills and resources to build self-confidence, understand their rights, earn an income and gain the respect of their family and community. Through our programs, women master economic and social empowerment skills, that enable them to lead a financially independent life with dignity.

Other Activities

Entrepreneurship Guidance

Whether you are a woman interested in starting a business, applying for a business loan, finding government contracting opportunities or improving an existing business, we organize entrepreneurship guidance programmes to provide women entrepreneurs with a variety of support and services, including help in fortifying self-reliance.

Health and wellness

A healthy lifestyle being the foundation for success, we proclaim women health to be of most importance. Having the best Ayurveda treatment facility, we organise medical camps specially for women to address their health conerns. Special awareness camps are conducted for women hygiene in rural areas.

Yoga programmes are held for women to channelise their energy to spread peace and positivity. Women attending these training sessions are seen on different platforms conducting yoga classes and promoting healthy life.

Entrepreneurship Guidance

Whether you are a woman interested in starting a business, applying for a business loan, finding government contracting opportunities or improving an existing business, we organize entrepreneurship guidance programmes to provide women entrepreneurs with a variety of support and services, including help in fortifying self-reliance.

  • Sports and fitness.

Be it track or field indoors or outdoors we support and encourage all the talented women in sports. We also appreciate and felecitate their success at national and international levels.

  • Socio-Cultural events

A woman preserves the culture and tradition much more affectionately. It seems to them their jewel of pride.The organisation gives them opportunities to foster and promulgate their culture at various social, cultural events.

  • Strengthening the voice

We organise workshops to pursuit in various soft skills.To build up good orators we also conduct women anchoring training programmes and provide opportunities at mega events conducted at national and international levels.

  • Training women in Vedic fields

Women in near past were denied or deprived from learning the vedic shastras but through the unique initiative by Sadguru Foundation, under the guidance of H.H. Sadguruji, women are brought back to the golden era of Gargi and Maitreyi where they are taught to chant the vedic mantras as good as the men.The concept of “Mahila Purohit ” and “Ved Vidushi” produced more than 400 women in Goa performing holy rituals in different villages, performing sacrificial yagyas for the prosperity of the world. This has given women a dignified status in society.

Healthcare

Health Care and Wellness

    We believe that health care services are important for promoting and maintaining health of the people, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death. Our strategic aim of healthcare and wellness coverage is to ensure that mankind can make the utmost use of health services without the risk of financial ruin or impoverishment.

    The main goals for health care and wellness is to improve the health for the population,  improving the responsiveness of the health care to the population it serves and fairness in financial contributions.

    We organize various health care programmes. Such programmes play a central and critical role in improving access and quality of physical and mental health care for the population.  Through such programmes we provide essential services that promote hygiene, prevent disease and deliver health care services to individuals, families and communities to make our nation healthy and safe.

     

    Programmes for Women’s Health Care

    In order to promote health and hygiene and raise awareness about good hygiene habits we have been organizing Health and Hygiene cognizance. Our crusade focused on providing health educators and the rural women/children from remote areas with tips on how to help prevent the spread of disease and also influenced people by encouraging them to adopt simple healthy habits that can prevent illnesses. Our aim is to change the harmful age old habits and practices.

    Altering behavior by itself, is a mammoth task and it necessitates as much investment and time as building infrastructure. So we plan to contribute supervision to the women to build responsiveness. Programmes are organized in different villages to promote awareness at large.

     

    Ayurveda Camps

    Ayurveda – the science of life and longevity is an ancient Indian system of holistic medicine, which has emerged as an important form of holistic therapy throughout the world. Its essence is the conjunction of body and mind to achieve optimal health and happiness. Considering this fact and promoting ancient medical science, we provide various means to people to understand medical treatment that can be done through Ayurveda. People from rural areas are also benefited through these camps on various illnesses. We organise various Ayurvedic medical camps with Panchkarma practices in different localities of Goa.

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    Rural Development

    Rural development is an important parameter when we aim for national development, as majority of population resides in rural areas, strengthening and empowering this population indeed serves an important contribution in national development.

    Rural Development is a policy and human well being activity which has been passed by us in the process of improving the quality of life and economic well being  of people living in relatively isolated lands.

    We conduct various activities which are designed to improve the social  and economic life of the rural population. It is a process , which aims at improving the wellbeing and self realization of people living outside the urbanized areas. It is a strategy to improve rural creation, productivity,  equality,  stability in social and economic development.

    We have programmes like Jana Kaylan, workshops for unemployed people, programmes for old age people.

    Jana Kalyan programme

    This is a specially designed project for the uplifting of society. It aims to uplift the people spiritually and socially. In the society people are trained through this program to organize events, coordinate efficiently with teams, analyze ground level situations etc. so as to develop social leaders. On the spiritual front, activities are organized wherein people get to be a part of spiritual activities like Yagya, Anushthan which help people raise themselves with positivity. Health camps are also organised as a part of this programme to help people in need.