Who are we?
As Louis Pasteur said, "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Chance Favors only the Prepared Mind."
Kaushal Edu-tainment Youth & Society Trust a.k.a., K.E.Y.S. Trust, is about creating that chance for change and survival against climate change. It is about value addition for social transformation & being that torch for India by preparing young minds for the inevitable.
K.E.Y.S. Trust, renews its hope in science & technology as the means to mitigating and adapting to Climate Change. We would like you to be a part of our concerted efforts in instituting change. We are a young, 12AA registered, 2 year old not-for-profit that seeks to incorporate experiential & peer learning into career & sustainability oriented science education.
Our Vision: Science for a sustainable tomorrow.
Our Goals:
• Increase conceptual clarity via critical, logical, & abstract reasoning through hands on learning.
• Addressing teaching & scientific capacity deficit in the coming decades.
• Addressing environmental & societal issues in the present.
• Skill development & career counselling for broadening horizons.
• Facilitating innovation & change by supporting ingenuity.
What do we do?
• We are practical, application focused and progressive. Current education is not.
• We help directly with career planning in youth, indirectly with succession & manpower planning in industry and research. Key sectors like agriculture, medicine, R&D & engineering suffer from attrition.
• We do practical skill development for self-reliance & sustainable livelihoods.
• We can encourage innovative thinking & entrepreneurship, provide career guidance & counselling or connect youth to experts in India through peer based learning.
• We support science awareness in the general public for social transformation through youth.
K.E.Y.S. Trust is about embedding experiential learning into the process of science education for holistically enabling urban youth to become Climate Champions in order to aid in adaptation, resilience and capacity building through a volunteer run practical and pragmatic career & innovation oriented initiative.
Who is it for?
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes.Why are we needed?
In the current economic & socio-political climate, where runaway climate change is an imminent reality & our leaders are still in Climate denial, India needs to focus on capacity building by empowering our youth. It is our responsibility as communities to seek sustainable solutions as this is our planet. This is crucial for the survival of our loved ones.
Today's education does not teach how to live sustainably, much about Climate Change nor does it guide students on the avenues they can explore in sciences. More importantly, there is the need to create a sense of identity, sense of belonging, sense of responsible collective ownership, sense of pride, sense of camaraderie & thereby holistic growth of individuals in our communities from grassroots initiatives which may be summed up as Ikigai.
Where are we now?
As of December 2016 we were at 404.25 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere & as of May 2017 we crossed 410 ppm. Global experts say when we cross 420 ppm we will face climate chaos, as the world would warm up by 2-4 degrees Celsius & climate anomalies would escalate. Our environmental & social problems have its roots in our unsustainable living.
Main effects of Climate Change on our systems and nation:
1. Heat Waves
2. Sea Level Rise
3. Floods
4. Drought
5. Infectious diseases
6. Glacier Melts
7. Agriculture & Food Security
8. Extreme weather conditions...cyclones, quakes, Cloud Burst, Flash floods, etc.
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