Service and Sustainable Development
What is “service”? What is “sustainable development”? To be honest, I don’t know.
What I do know is that Service and Sustainable Development are two sides of the same coin – Sustainable Development basically means individuals and societies living in systems that can be improved on and continued indefinitely to maintain a good quality of life for all. Sustainable Development does not mean creating the perfect global lifestyle that never changes – technology evolves and it is the nature of all environments to have flucuations, so that wouldn’t make sense. What it means is creating true human happiness that does not detriment the happiness or opportunities for happiness of future generations. Service is action in pursuit of this, usually in the form of directly helping others.
But notice the “basically”. It took me years to grasp these concepts, but it will take me a lifetime to understand why this world and its systems are unsustainable and not maximising happiness. And it will take another to find out what a sustainable, happy world would look like.
Isn’t that wonderful? A lifetime of learning, growing, dreaming, and connecting with the Earth. Join me on my journey.
Generation. Education. Period. CAS Reflection #5 – final reflection
You can watch my final CAS reflection on GEP here.
CAS Project – Reflection #3
In this reflection, I reflect on the Reflection and Demonstration Stages. Link to reflection video.
CAS Project – Reflection #2
In this reflection, I reflect on the Action stage. Video link here.
CAS Project – Reflection #1
In this video, I reflect on the Investigation and Preparation stages. Link to reflection video
Leaders of Environmental Initiatives CAS Reflection #4 (Final reflection)
In the beginning of Grade 12, I remained part of LEI as part of an informal guidance panel helping the new chair settling into their role. One of the projects we have done is to organise and run a workshop helping the members of the various Environmental Initiatives...
Leaders of Environmental Initiatives CAS Reflection #3
Here is my lengthy video reflection on a year of being Head (not "chair" as I mistakenly said in the video!) of LEI.
Generation. Education. Period. CAS Reflection #4 – Freedom Cups presentation at the Boarding House
For several weeks up until this Tuesay, I was involved in organising and presenting a presentation and Q and A session promoting menstrual cups and explaining their usage to the girls in the school's boarding house (dorms). I believe this helped me understand Learning...
Generation. Education. Period. CAS Reflection #3 – International Women’s Week
For the last few weeks, GEP has been working with Because I Am Focus Group, I-India Global Concern, and Daraja Global Concern, 2 other services in our school, to organise a week of activities celebrating International Women's Day. We are all services that relate to...
Generation. Education. Period. CAS Reflection #2
Today I reflected on how GEP has made me much more aware of my weaknesses as a leader, pushing me to become a more assertive and knowledgable one. For this, I am very grateful that GEP has a co-chairing system in which 2 people, one year apart, are co-chairs together,...
Leaders of Environmental Initiatives CAS Reflection #2
My video reflection can be found here. The images used (without captions) can be found in this folder.