This project has enlightened the life of many school children in the rural, underprivileged schools where facilities for IT, maths and science education are minimal. Those remote schools are poor in facilities as well as resources including properly trained teachers, regular classes, laboratories and hands on experience for the students. Some remote schools do not have teachers to help in maths and science.

In this context, reaching the unreachable communities, leaving no one behind, by the operation of service learning project has been a tremendous help to the schools. Our undergraduates not only help uplifting academic environment of the schools by teaching, training teachers and giving a hands on experience for use of computers, IT basics have been a strength to schools. Training on web based learning with the establishments of the IT labs help school children in many ways: it increases their knowledge about IT, finds useful resources as supplement to their normal academic syllabus and enhance computer literacy. Moreover, they can continue the learning process even without regular guidance of teachers which makes the learning process sustainable. To add more, the transformation of the students in to a “science and computer literate” community has a very strong psychological upliftment, as we have observed in many schools.

By participating in the service learning programme, the undergraduates of the university have demonstrated significant enhancement in many life and soft skills. We annually perform a survey on how this programme has impacted on participants and the results have been very promising: they show significant enhancement in,

- leadership qualities where shy and backward students have gained confidence

- time management ability

- problem solving ability

- crisis management ability (in rural areas, many unexpected issues and problems arise that include transport, food and accommodation, conflict with other activities etc)

Therefore, this project was able to transform both the actors (undergraduates) and the beneficiaries (school children) in a positive way.

We intend to expand this project into the other faculties of our university and beyond that to reach the other university sin the country. We are planning to organise a workshop to share our experience with others and motivate them to start similar projects to help uplifting rural schools and build the capacities of teachers and students. We also wish to get more stakeholders involved in rural settings including the central and local government authorities. In addition, we wish to evaluate the success of each project by developing key performance indicators.