Rising Star children’s home and St.Mary’s school function under the guiding light of “Dharmashram” which shelters a community of young and old, children, matrons, nurses, teachers and workers all fully at home in their sharing, bearing, caring, concern for each other.

            Dharmashram is established to inculcate Indian spirituality, value based education family ethics and character formation among its inmates. For this we, the management, teachers, workers, and children live together, pray together, eat together. This has helped the children to feel at home and to grow as good world citizens.

Residential education not only has advantages but is necessary especially in the particular milieu of this region and condition of the people. The children need extra coaching since they come from rural back ground, parents being uneducated.

            Language, English language in our context, is what will prepare them for the world of opportunities and competition. Use of English is compulsory in the Children Home. Special tuitions are arranged according to the need of each individual student. For this purpose teachers reside at the centre.

            Special formation in culture and character building, curtsey and good manners are provided with a view to shaping them into world citizens. We equip them with all the advantages which they miss in the urban milieu and higher strata family background.

            The following notion about the aim and objectives of St.Mary’s school are relevant to Rising Star children’s home.    

    The St.Mary’s school is started with the aim to arrest and serve as an antidote against the disastrous consequence of the official educational policy which imposes a virtual ban on English education for the rural poor in this State. This has rendered the 70% rural population into the modern untouchable “low castes”. It recalls the inhuman practice of pouring molten led into the ears of “low castes” who dared to listen to the lessons of “Vedas” – religious teachings, by the “high caste” priests. We are trying to brake this new form of caste barrier and make a dent into this tragic situation.

We Know ours is a difficult undertaking although it is only a small beginning of great things to come.

In this IT and computer age English education opens the door to boundless opportunities in the world which has evolved into a single city. In particular for people of South Asian countries which have progress – prone tie – ups with the Western and English speaking nations, ignorance of English shuts the door to opportunities of above description. Perpetuation of poverty through perpetuation of illiteracy, including  English illiteracy, is the official policy.

Under these circumstances we have opened the St. Mary’s school and Rising Star children’s home in the hope of providing English education to at least a few of the rural poor children as a first step. Our study and calculations prove that note even one in a thousand population among these rural poor can afford the heavy donations and fees for their children in the English medium schools in the city which are established to cater to the rich exclusively

In St. Mary’s we have L.K.G and U.K.G, 1^st to 5^th standard. The school is being upgraded every year. Our aim is to have at least 50% of students from the families of rural poor and wage earning families, when we reach 10^th standard – Matriculation or high school graduation.

The school which had to be shifted to three rented building year after year is now housed in its own buildings although with congested accommodation. Besides      we have to built additional classrooms every year.

We have 300 students in the school of whom 60 are in the children’s home. All of this has come from economically poor background. We have found sponsors for 23 children. We are looking for generous sponsors and institutions to sponsor more of these deserving children.