Ryan Group launches Ryan Schools Food Bucket Challenge

Media Release

Mumbai, 7 Sep 2014:  The Ryan International Group of Institutions is socially committed to empower the student community in all spheres.  Over the last several decades, the Group has undertaken several remarkable initiatives in support of needy and of Society such as adoption of orphanages, blind homes, and homes for the elderly; community outreach programs, village adoption, hygiene programs and health camps; environmental awareness drives; and the provision of relief and rehabilitation measures for disaster-affected communities.

 

In yet another unique initiative, Ryan Group launched the Ryan Schools Food Bucket Challenge at St Lawrence School, Kandivali (East) here during Teachers’ Day celebrations on Friday September 5.

 

 

The Group aims to mobilize over one million kilograms of food (mainly cereals like rice, wheat, jowar and foods like sugar, onions, potatoes etc.) and distribute it to various orphanages and NGO’s across the country. This is aimed to be a nationwide program and the group hopes that in addition to its stakeholders – students, parents, staff and others, the general public will also join in to support the needy.

 

The program is also intended to make their students sensitive to the issues around them and be alive to the situation of the less fortunate.  Such activities feature regularly in Ryan schools across the country, as the group strongly focuses on inculcating the importance of social responsibility amongst the students and the stakeholders helping them develop an attitude of selfless service. The Bible says, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

 

The program was kicked off at the St Lawrence School, Kandivli East by providing a nutritious meal to 500 children from various orphanages.

 

Speaking on the occasion, Ryan International Group of Institutions managing director Grace Pinto said, ‘This challenge initiative has been launched to bring awareness that within each lies the potential and the will to bring the change we’d like to see. There is nothing we cannot accomplish if we work collectively to make a difference! Our target is to bring a million smiles. Through this effort we encourage our students to become agents of change in the society bringing God’s love to the poor and needy.’

 

The salient features of Ryan Schools Food Bucket Challenge

·         A unique initiative to mobilize and distribute One Million Kilograms of food to various orphanages & NGO.

·         Nationwide program across all Ryan Schools