HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
My School Satya Surabhi (recognized by the Government of Tamil Nadu) was founded in 1999 by Padmini and Ram Mani, with a motive to provide quality and value based education to children of farm labourers, petty vendors and the underprivileged members of the community, regardless of caste, religion or gender. It saw its beginnings with an initial enrolment of 20 students in a little shed.

Within a span of ten years, the school has grown to a strength of over 150 children between the ages of four and thirteen years. Starting from Nursery, the school provides education till Class 8.

The Education Dept. of the Government of Tamilnadu, Dindugal district, has chosen this as a model school among the forty schools they had surveyed in the year 2005.

ETHOS AND CURRICULUM
The unique feature of this school is that it imparts education in Tamil and English, making the child adept in both the languages. The school seeks to inculcate, in addition to academics, universal values of kindness, truth, creativity and a love of nature – to develop in the children sensitivity for fellow beings and the environment. My School believes in the holistic approach; keeping this perspective in view, we have computers, yoga, nature appreciation, music, dance, drama, hygiene, civic awareness, sports such as cricket, football and karate as part of the school’s curriculum. Occasionally, volunteers help with the various activities of the school. We have also initiated literacy classes for local women, our conviction being that when you educate a woman, essentially, you educate the entire family.

AMENITIES
Thanks to our donors and well wishers, our library books and teaching materials are ever expanding. Two small playgrounds with swings and other play equipments allow the students to enjoy play time in a safe and friendly environment. Medical camps and health checkups are a regular feature of the school’s program.

OUR VISION
To make quality, value-based education accessible to all children irrespective of their social and economic background.

OUR MISSION: To provide suitable goals to students of all abilities in order to create opportunities of discovery for them to realize their full potential.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Ms. Padmini Mani
Managing Trustee
Former Head of the Foreign Languages Dept
The British School, New Delhi
Former Vice Principal
Kodaikanal Christian College, Kodaikanal

Padmabhushan Dr. V Mohini Giri
Former Chairperson, National Commission for Women
Trustee, Guild for Service, New Delhi

Mr. R. Parthasarathy
Management Consultant
Rampal and Co., Madurai

Mr. S. Natanagopal
Chartered Accountant
Ganesh Prasad and Co., Madurai

Mr. Sengotuvel
Lawyer, Chennai High Court
Chennai

Mr. David Barun Kumar Thomas
J.N.U Aluminai
Developmental worker & Social activist (runs Self-help groups) Kodaikanal

Ms. Jigyasa Giri
Author and Kathak teacher
Pritya, Chennai

Dr. Pratibha Jain
Author and Translator
Pritya, Chennai