Since 2022 the Aumund Found­ation has been award­ing schol­arships at The Lawrence School, loc­ated at the foot of the Him­alayas in the far north of India. This co-ed board­ing school was foun­ded in 1847, and is con­sidered to be the old­est of its kind in the world. A del­ega­tion from the Aumund Found­ation vis­ited in Novem­ber 2024 and found out how clearly this his­tory can be felt on the school cam­pus. Our seven schol­arship recip­ients were so proud to lead us through the school build­ings, the school’s own print­ing works, and around the impress­ive grounds. Tak­ing care of people from less priv­ileged back­grounds is in the DNA of the school, and the stu­dents are immersed from the begin­ning, for example by look­ing after the chil­dren from a local orphan­age.

The former head­mas­ter of the school, Mr Him­mat S. Dhil­lon, sums up the vis­ion of the school as fol­lows. To pro­duce a well-roun­ded, self-con­fid­ent, pos­itive young per­son with the fol­low­ing attrib­utes:

• An inquir­ing and fear­less mind.
• Respect for oth­ers’ view­points.
• Belief in the val­ues of social justice and equal­ity.
• Lead­ership skills across the spec­trum – social, polit­ical, com­mer­cial, and cul­tural.
• The abil­ity to stand up for him or her­self as well as for oth­ers.

We are proud to be able to con­trib­ute to this.