RIS, Goethe Institut sign agreement of cooperation

Islamabad

Roots International Schools (RIS) signed an agreement of cooperation with Goethe Institut, says a press release. The agreement would serve as a hallmark of successful relationship between Germany and Pakistan.

Ms. Ina Lepel, ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany to Pakistan was the chief guest of the ceremony. Stefan Winkler, director of the Goethe-Institut, Burghardt Brinksmeier, cultural attaché at the German Embassy, Olav Schroeer, regional coordinator of Regional Institut in New-Delhi, Irfan Samad Khan, head of the Language Department of the Goethe Institut, Maha A. Jafarey, PASCH coordinator, Naurin Zaki, PASCH coordinator, students of RIS, parents and faculty were also present on the occasion.

RIS students performed in the ceremony, depicting the quintessence of Roots German Language Club. The club aims to cultivate raw minds of students and shape them with extra ordinary skills and to make their learning capabilities and experiences intriguing and creating more engaged and experimental learning opportunities for them while dispensing their learning through reflection.

Ms. Ina Lepel and Stefan Winkler appreciated Walid Mushtaq’s and Roots International Schools efforts over these years for the promotion of German Language. Walid Mushtaq thanked the Goethe Institut and German Embassy and faculty members for their untiring efforts.

“Learning a foreign language not only reveals how other societies think and feel, what they have experienced and value, and how they express themselves, it also provides a cultural mirror in which we can more clearly see our own society.”

In 2008 Goethe Institute started its PASCH project and RIS is one of those schools who initiated this project from the first day of its launching in Pakistan, not only at college level but in primary and high schools also. With this vision the CEO RIS Sir Walid Mushtaq, the idea sponsor of Roots German Language programme, with high spirits and unshakable faith joined hands with Goethe Institute to facilitate students with the best learning procedures and to expose them to international environment by arranging tours to Germany to enrich them with German traditions and customs.

Since then, with the collaboration of the Goethe Institut, German Embassy, RIS has been able to develop global citizens by implementation of the Foreign Language Programme. The PASCH partner schools' initiative is a venture into bringing schools from all over the world at one platform. As a PASCH partner school, students participate in the language youth camps and students' forums at the regional and international levels at different destinations around the world. Roots International School has always been in the forefront of all PASCH Schools activities.