Fazlani L’Academie Globale (FLAG)
is an International School located at Mazgaon, Mumbai. It is a
school where the citizens of the future are being trained, developed,
groomed and encouraged to think, explore and discover new world
for themselves.
The Mission is “To educate and nurture each child into
a responsible, global citizen in a warm and caring community that
fosters excellence, responsibility and love for life-long learning.”
At FLAG more is learnt outside the classroom than within it through
field trips, case studies, CAS Camps, community and service projects
and an enriching extra-curricular program.
Achievements of FLAG:
• It is the 1st School in India to organize a Model United
Nations (MUN) in its first year of operation.
• Shalin Shah of grade 8th won an award on his design from
Microsoft, UK.
• Taki Kumar Ranka, grade 9th stood 3rd in the All India
Final of the French Idol competitions at Hyderabad.
The extraordinary passion and commitment of students who gave
their time, love, affection and part of themselves for the cause
of the community is one of the key aspects of the student’s
learning process. Each of them had something significant to contribute
to the CAS (Creativity, Action & Service). Their participation
brings out in them perseverance, self confidence, a degree of
humility, responsibility , commitment ,an ethical appreciation
of humanitarian and environmental issues and make them better
global citizens. Some of the CAS activities which were held at
FLAG are mentioned below:
Help Age India: An NGO that works for the grey population of
our country, were invited to Fazlani with around 40 senior citizens.
Our children’s aim was to share moments of happiness with
them keeping the Festival of Diwali in mind.We organized activities
like housie, dancing and arranged lunch for them too. At the end of the function, a box of sweets was given to each of them. Our students joined
hands to make this a memorable moment for them. (Wed 27th Oct
2011)
Childrens Day: Fun n fair organized by the CAS students. Complete
planning of games, stalls, décor, posters, duty lists were
arranged by them. This activity was a great success as students
from 5th grade upwards attended this fair and had a time of their
lives. (Sat 20th Nov 2011)
Project Chirag: A youth initiative to light up thousands of rural
houses in India. This was one of our biggest challenges this term.
To buy solar powered equipment our students organized a canteen
day. On this day the students organized food from their homes
and sold it to the other school children for Rs 50/- each per
plate. They collected around 35,000/- but needed more funds as
they had taken up a challenge to light up at least 30 to 35 houses
in Vikramghad Kotilpada. The grade 12 students made a power point
presentation to the parents of the students. The response was
overwhelming and helped achieve the target of lighting up 35 houses.
The execution of this project happened on Monday 24th Feb 2011.This
was one challenge which the CAS students had worked really hard
for …..An experience which will remain with them life long.
Terry Fox: A teenager diagnosed with bone cancer had to get his
leg above the knee amputated. Seeing other cancer patients suffer
he decided to raise money for Cancer research, by running across
Canada. An Annual Terry Fox run sprang up in many cities. In Mumbai
it was held on 27th Feb 2011. For the same cause FLAG students
ran the entire Marine Lines.
Mumbai Mobile Crèche: Young children and their working
mothers are one of the most vulnerable sections living in poverty
in India today. While the adults toil, young children suffer as
they are neglected and the older ones bear the responsibility
of adult chores. The CAS participants took the initiative and
planned 6 sessions every Thursdays with these children to give
them basic computer knowledge. These sessions had started from
Thursday 7th July 2011 and ended on Thursday 11th August 2011.