Our coun­try has pro­gressed eco­nom­i­cal­ly and major steps have been tak­en to enhance edu­ca­tion stan­dards but some­where along the way, we seem to have lost sight of our tra­di­tion­al val­ues. The time has come when we must start mould­ing the char­ac­ter of stu­dents to become good cit­i­zens and retain our eth­nic­i­ty. With a huge expan­sion of the edu­ca­tion sys­tem, the stan­dard as mea­sured by the per­cent­age of marks obtained in exam­i­na­tions has been ris­ing to unprece­dent­ed lev­els. But, unfor­tu­nate­ly there is a marked decline in the char­ac­ter, moral val­ues and gen­er­al behav­ior of stu­dents com­ing out of schools and col­leges. In most edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions, there is a total lack of the con­cept of human devel­op­ment and nation build­ing in the edu­ca­tion process. The empha­sis instead, is on achiev­ing max­i­mum per­cent­age in aca­d­e­m­ic results, mon­ey-mak­ing and mate­ri­al­ism. This has result­ed in the grad­ual ero­sion of val­ues among peo­ple and the body politic. This trend needs to be reversed if India has to sur­vive as a nation and acquire its due place in the world. The only way to arrest this decline is in pro­vid­ing val­ue-ori­en­ta­tion in our edu­ca­tion­al system.

Under­stand­ing the above chal­lenge at hand, the need is to take con­crete action of fram­ing cur­ric­u­la and devel­op­ment and adap­ta­tion of inno­v­a­tive meth­ods to incul­cate val­ues and ethics in children.

Our hum­ble attempt is to bridge this gap using a three pronged approach by intro­duc­ing CEDE (Child Edu­ca­tion, Devel­op­ment and Empow­er­ment), a holis­tic devel­op­men­tal pro­gram to enhance a child’s per­son­al­i­ty, knowl­edge and skills, there­by mak­ing him a con­fi­dent and respon­si­ble indi­vid­ual; as well as Empow­er­ment Work­shops for teach­ers, par­ents, change man­agers and volunteers.