Green Earth Roshni School

Earth Day Celebration at Green Earth Roshni School
22nd April 2025

Green Earth Roshni School celebrated Earth Day on 22nd April 2025 with great zeal and love for our planet. From Kindergarten to Grade VIII, students took part in meaningful and creative activities that honored Mother Earth.

Young learners made “Happy Earth” and “Sad Earth” drawings, sang nature rhymes, and created collages using recycled materials. Students made beautiful posters, handprints, and even pencil boxes from recycled plastic. They also crafted flower pots using waste materials and planted flowers and small plants—giving life back to the Earth through their hands.

Role plays and skits highlighted the blessings of Earth’s resources and the harm caused by careless human actions. The entire school echoed with the message of care, responsibility, and hope.

This celebration was a reminder that every day is Earth Day. At Green Earth Roshni School, we are nurturing young hearts and hands to love, protect, and restore our precious planet.

🏆 A Proud Moment for Green Earth Roshni School! 🏆

On 27th February 2025, the Lahore School Corporate Social Responsibility Center Speech & Debate Competition was held at Lahore School of Economics (CSR), where five schools and ten teams competed in a thought-provoking "Taqreeri Muqabala". The competition featured compelling topics:

📌 Education vs. Skills – What is more important in life?
📌 Rising Inflation – Who is responsible, the government or we ourselves?
📌 The Greatest Asset of the 21st Century – Digital Future or Digital Slavery?

We are thrilled to announce that the talented students of Green Earth Roshni School demonstrated exceptional debate skills, confidence, and eloquence, securing the Runner-Up position (2nd place)! 🎉🏅

Their outstanding performance won them a trophy, certificates, and medals, making us incredibly proud!

👏🌟 Congratulations to our shining stars:
🥇 Umm-e-Slyme Rumasa
🥈 Abiha Shahid
🥉 Umar Abid

Your dedication, confidence, and powerful arguments have brought pride and success to our school. We are immensely proud of you! 💐🎊

Project of Special Olympics unified Education with the collaboration of Green Earth Roshni School.

The students of Green Earth Roshni School visited DHA LGS Girls wing. Celebrated World Children day. They were very happy to represented school's theme and about handwork.
Thanks to the students of LGS they donated books, stationary, toys to the students of GERS.

Exibition of vocational classes.
Activities done by Grade 6/7/8
Book binding,block printing,stitching,Tie&Due,clay work,marble printing and cooking class.

Creative activities with Kindergarten students.

Teacher Training session

(Written by Bashir Ahmed, Roshni Association, Lahore)

Topic: "Special Persons: Hurdles, Challenges and Way Forward"

Whenever the word ‘special persons’ is used for persons with physically and mentally re****ed, I suspect the word is misused; rather, their maverick expertise predict that they are the very much special persons with unique capabilities as compared to the normal persons. The special persons are also special in their distinctive behavior and artistic excellence.
Though they posses lack of few traits like a normal person does, sometimes they show extra and inimitable qualities: a profound talent in Art and Craft, Sketching, handwriting, and few possess good memory – to mention a few. The success stories of renowned special persons – Stephen Hawking, English Physicist and Cosmologist; Nick Vujicic, Australian motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome (absence of all four limbs); Muniba Mazari, National Ambassador for UN women Pakistan and motivational speaker, and so many others, reveal that these persons can be forged to an asset of a country – rather liability. Despite all these adroitness, they are the most neglected humankind of our society.
Special persons are individuals who suffer as a result of genetic or environmental factors acquired by the inability to learn or acquire the experience, skills and performance of the work done by the normal healthy individual Cultural, economic or social background.
A report of The WHO and the World Bank estimate that one billion people experience some form of disability. In Pakistan, the issue of disability has remained neglected and ignored from all aspects: administrative, social, financial and legal. Furthermore, they are the most marginalized because they are ‘unseen, unheard and uncounted’ in the country. Interestingly, it is being estimated that there are only 531 institutions, in Pakistan, to cater rehabilitative and education needs of about 3.29 million people who are victims of one or other disability. Unfortunately, these institutions are mainly based in urban areas which deprive a great number of special persons in rural areas, KPK,FATA,Gilgit Baltistan, rural Sindh, Southern Punjab, from the services provided at these institutions.
The problems special persons are facing include: lack of updated and reliable data or information, dearth of community based rehabilitation and education programmes, paucity of proper funding mechanism to NGOs, absence of coordination and networking mechanisms between NGOs and government, most of the buildings do not have support facilities such as rails, wheelchairs and lifts to facilitate special persons, scarcity of trained and qualified teachers and social workers, audiologists, speech therapists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, personality development programmes, illiteracy, decay of health facility centers, and so on.
Notwithstanding all these problems, all is not lost yet. In Lahore, Pakistan, there exist many welfare centers which are working for the well-being of these trivialized chunk of our society, like Roshni Association, Amin Maktab, Rising Star, Fountain House - to name a few.
Among all these, Roshni Association is one of these institutions which is providing living facility, food, rehabilitation programmes, extracurricular activities of sports and exercises for physical fitness, skill development activities, and social therapy programmes to make special persons socially and culturally accepted human being of our country. The devoted, stalwart team of Roshni Association has been working for the welfare of special persons since its inception, 2001. The special persons accommodated in the organization has achieved a number of successes at national and international level, like Gohar Ali won silver medal in 100 meter race in Asia-Pacific Special Olympics 2013, Australia; Nida Bilal won many prizes in Art Competition at National level, etc.
In light of the challenges and problems, it is recommended that the Government of Pakistan must take all possible administrative, legal and resource related measures and make their policies walk the talk, allocation of more resources and funds, increasing educational and rehabilitative institutions, bring national legislation in complete conformity with the existing laws related to special persons. Addressing these hindrances is within our reach. In fact we have a moral duty to remove the bulwarks to participation, and expertise to unlock the umpteen potential of people with special needs.
“Disability need not be an obstacle to success. I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life. Yet it has not prevented me from having a prominent career in astrophysics and a happy family life”, said Stephen Hawking.

(Bashir Ahmed,
Roshni Association, Society for the Welfare of Special Persons, Lahore).

کرم یافتہ لوگ

واصف علی واصف صاحب نے لکھا ہے جس پہ کرم ہے، اُس سے کبھی پنگا نہ لینا۔ وہ تو کرم پہ چل رہا ہے۔ تم چلتی مشین میں ہاتھ دو گے، اُڑ جاؤ گے۔

کرم کا فارمولا تو کوئی نہیں ۔اُس کرم کی وجہ ڈھونڈو۔ جہاں تک میرا مشاہدہ ہے، جب بھی کوئی ایسا شخص دیکھا جس پر ربّ کا کرم تھا، اُسے عاجز پایا۔ پوری عقل کے باوجود بس سیدھا سا بندہ۔ بہت تیزی نہیں دکھائے گا۔ اُلجھائے گا نہیں۔ رستہ دے دے گا۔ بہت زیادہ غصّہ نہیں کرے گا۔سِمپل بات کرے گا۔ میں نے ہر کرم ہوئے شخص کو مخلص دیکھا ـــ اخلاص!! غلطی کو مان جاتا ہے۔ معذرت کر لیتا ہے۔ سرنڈر کر دیتا ہے۔

"جس پر کرم ہوا ہے نا، میں نے اُسے دوسروں کے لئے فائدہ مند دیکھا"

یہ ہو ہی نہیں سکتا کہ آپ کی ذات سے نفع ہو رہا ہو، اور اللہ آپ کے لئے کشادگی کو روک دے۔ وہ اور کرم کرے گا۔

میں نے ہر صاحبِ کرم کو احسان کرتے دیکھا ہے۔ حق سے زیادہ دیتا ہے۔ اُس کا درجن 13 کا ہوتا ہے، 12 کا نہیں۔ اللہ کے کرم کے پہیے کو چلانے کے لئے آپ بھی درجن 13 کا کرو اپنی زندگی میں۔ *اپنی کمٹمنٹ سے تھوڑا زیادہ احسان کر دیا کرو۔* نئیں تو کیا ہو گا؟ حساب پہ چلو گے تو حساب ہی چلے گا! دل کے کنجوس کے لئے کائنات بھی کنجوس ہے۔

دل کے سخی کے لئے کائنات خزانہ ہے۔جب زندگی کے معاملات اڑ جائیں سمجھ جاؤ تم نے دوسروں کے معاملات اڑاۓ ہوۓ ہیں ۔
"آسانیاں دو آسانیاں ملیں گی"