LMOIS, ASPnet et UNESCO

Après de nombreuses années de lobbying, la SRCM était enfin accréditée auprès du Département de l'information publique des Nations unies (UNDPI) le 12 décembre 2005.
Très opportuniste, Chari utilisait l’"alliance" de la SRCM avec l’ONU pour obtenir une relative légitimité internationale et redorer son image. Cela a fini par porter ses fruits, notamment grâce au concours annuel de dissertation organisé en Inde conjointement par la SRCM et l’UNIC.

Toujours en 2005, la SRCM fondait aussi l’école LMOIS. En 2010, l’école a rejoint le Réseau du système des écoles associées de l’UNESCO (ASPnet) communément appelé « écoles associées de l’UNESCO ». Un pas de plus dans la récupération de l’image onusienne…

Fondé en 1953, ce réseau mondial rassemble plus de 9000 institutions éducatives (écoles maternelles et primaires, établissements d’enseignement secondaire et professionnel, et institutions de formation des enseignants) de 180 pays, qui œuvrent au soutien de la compréhension internationale, de la paix, du dialogue interculturel,du développement durable et de la qualité de l’éducation..
La lettre "One World, one Humanity" de la SRCM auprès de l’UNDPI de décembre consacre une large partie de son contenu à ce rapprochement.

Extraits :
ASPnet schools are ‘navigators for peace‘ and agents for positive change and serve as laboratories of ideas on innovative approaches for quality education for all. (…)
They aim at translating the four pillars of education for the 21st century -- learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together—into good practices of quality education.
ASPnet cooperates with a broad range of institutions, UN agencies, the private Sector, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), or research institutions.
The Lalaji Memorial International Omega School‘s vision statement states ―”Omega strives to produce youngsters who are balanced, with soul, mind and body working in unison, with the soul guiding the mind in its activities and the body acting under the guidance of the mind”.
This vision is sustained by a dedicated management team and teaching staff that invests efforts and ideals in the Value Based Spiritual Education Programme (VBSE), which permeates every level of work and life on the campus.
The VBSE programme is the raison d’être of the school and is at its very core. It has established its framework on the eight values adopted by the UN in the “Learning to be” programme as core values for all human beings, everywhere. They are universal and hence apply to all humans irrespective of all possible discriminations. The LMIOS has added Spirituality as a value to this list and calls these the nine gems (Navratnas) of its VBSE programme : Sensivity and Creativity, Self-awareness and Self-Management, Truth and Wisdom, Health and Nutrition, Peace and Justice, Love and Compassion, Citizenship, Environment Morality, Spirituality.
The School on its part believes that if these values are properly imbibed, they have the potential to transform students into good and responsible citizens for the future.
These values are transmitted to the children first and foremost by providing role models in the form of teachers and staff and also by project based learning, seminars, group discussions, films, school clubs, scouts and last, but not least, personal experience. The goal is to make sure that the values become the fundamental and unconscious guiding principles of the lives of the children. The school curriculum includes this value based spiritual education at all levels as much in the classrooms as out of it. This ongoing exercise that continues for all the students throughout their stay in the school also includes re-search programmes and further training for the staff.