Our Baby Steps...............

->We began visiting people of rural areas. Our main intention here was to know the root cause of why these students dropped out or never attended school.

We found quite disheartening reasons to our questions while surveying.
A couple of families felt that financial crisis kept their children away from being educated. They regret for not being able to send their children to school. Some parents happened to say that their children had no interest to go to school!!!!!!!!

->Then we formed The Young Mettle Community, where we gave talks and held competitions for the members.We also conducted an essay competition in our school, which had a participation of around 30-40 students (that was quite surprising!)

->This was followed by displaying articles and posters in relation to this issue.

->Later we started giving talks in other private and public schools to highschool students. This also included quizzes, debates and presentations.

->We also tried our best to make the poor dropouts aware of the scholarships, schemes introduced by the government for the minorities and also about the various fields of higher studies of their interest that they can pursue.

LITTLE EYES UPON YOU

There are little eyes upon you

and they're watching night and day.

There are little ears that quickly

take in every word you say.

There are little hands all eager

to do anything you do

And a little boy who's dreaming

of a day he'll be like you.

You're the little fellow's idol,

you're the wisest of the wise.

In his little mind about you

no suspicions ever rise.

He believes in you devoutly,

holds all that you say and do;

He will say and do,in your way,

when he's grown up like you.

There's a wide eyed little fellow

who believes you're always right;

And his eyes are always opened,

and he watches day and night.

You are setting an example

everyday in all you do,

For the little boy who's waiting

to grow up to be like you.

* (collected from The Moral Compass)

As a ray of hope to the uneducated, illiterate youth of our country, we have the responsibility to give back their right to read and write, their right to breakfree of being uneducated, their right to stand on their feet.

And hence having a population of educated youth, our country's bright future is not far away!

To make this an eventuality, we need the support and participation of everyone and not just three or four of us.

Ancient Indian wisdom teaches us that our first responsibility is to the community,second to our  family and third to ourselves. When this hierarchy is reversed,a society starts degenarating.
 With an attitude of selflessness, Young Mettle has managed to give talks, print articles, conduct competitions and even raise funds in ordered to help underprivileged.

 Young Mettle feels proud to say that within a very short period of four months, it has been able to convince six dropouts to resume schooling. 

OUR MISSION