Simriti Singh : Building a better tomorrow

childhood marks the beginning and lays the foundation for the journey of life.

The magnitude of the importance of Childhood is often overlooked, but it is when and what shapes one’s personality, habits, mindsets and ideologies thus, happier childhoods are of utmost importance. A passionate believer in the aforementioned and an advocate of happier childhoods Simriti Singh is an early childhood facilitator, who works with very young children.

A Montessori practitioner with a practising licence from Association Montessori Internationale, Amsterdam after which she has dedicatedly and intensively worked on Autism, Learning Disabilities and similar programmes for young children. Simriti has been working with Shiv Nadar School since the last 9 years and is now setting up a school called the Lakeview School at the Shiv Nadar University. Simriti has presented academic papers across Thailand, Turkey and Dubai. With a strong belief that the youngest children are the ones who are not heard and seen enough, Simriti Singh found her calling, and has been working for the same ever since, to create an equitable learning space for children she found Inaayat - a place for little people, a not for profit organisation that is funded solely by her. Inaayat was born when Simriti Singh realised that there was a need for awareness and dialogue for younger children. Often special children are not diagnosed properly due to lack of resources accessible to parents and Inaayat has worked on providing the required assistance to parents while creating a warm and safe space for the little ones. Inaayat also initiated dialogue with grandparents to demystify autism. Inaayat as an organisation pays emphasis on equal learning opportunities notwithstanding caste, creed, religion, gender or economic background. Inaayat is one of the only organisations to employ the Indian Sign Language in classrooms and use it as a means for storytelling.

Simriti Singh’s Journey has been an enriching one thus far but she strives to do more, she believes we all learn best from Stories. The most recent one of her projects ‘Expresso’ with Nikita Phadnavis, where there was a chain of conversation, where stories of anger, shame and hurt in young children and the magnitude of their impacts or aftermaths, over a cup of coffee saw great success. Over the course of the pandemic, she has worked to provide for younger children, through online sessions, webinars, assistance over call and so much more. Simriti Singh is truly working towards creating a better tomorrow

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