Rita Banerjee, Senior Teacher of Carmel High School
What drew me to Umeed was the charisma of its Founder Director Salony Priya. She is a counselling psychologist, teacher, educational consultant and HR trainer. It is only natural that when one begins to write on the completion of a successful year of this powerful organization, one cannot but begin with Ms. Salony Priya, who is an inspiration and possesses the qualities of a remarkable leader. She has the competence, dominance, warmth, likeability and trust worthiness that make for a successful psychologist As the pioneer of a successful organization, she is a motivator who exudes confidence and reflects a high degree of enthusiasm whereby people respond more openly to her passion and dedication to her cause. She is a confident leader, calm, composed and steadfast who inspires confidence in others and draws out the trust and the best efforts of her team members. This leader works with an analytical insight keeping her goal dearly in focus.
While working as a teacher trainer with Umeed I have noticed how this organization is commit ted to excellence and is highly proactive in order to achieve excellence in all areas, Umeed has the hallmarks of a dynamic organizational structure. It is made of members who synergise individual competencies. There is palpably good working relationship among its members, a shared mission and a strength that comes from openness, willingness, receptivity, empathy and the humility to learn from others. The team members use their knowledge. skills, and expertise to identify individual needs of its clients while at the same time, sharing a common goal that increases the organizational business productivity.
I have felt in Umeed an environment of accountability and personal responsibility that makes for a successful team. What has impressed me also is the management style of its leader with task allocation, coordination and supervision whereby the system seems to works like a well-oiled machine. It is my conviction that collaboration with Umeed brings to schools special skills. In its mission to empower, energize and enable, Umeed reaches across disciplines to build a better a world. It creates a climate that facilitates a healthy development of adolescents and adult members of society.
It aims to provide opportunities to cultivate the capacity to enjoy life, to be creative, to be able to do things ones own way, to learn to interact with all kinds of people, people of all ages, races, with different interests and lifestyles as well as with people from different economic and cultural backgrounds. Umeed counseling in schools aims for emotional health of youth, enabling them to make meaningful commitments to humanity without losing themselves.
Youth has the potential for all human experience and the adult generation is partly responsible for helping youth to be able to cope with its own problems as well as be able to take on the overall problems of society. The world may never be perfect but a lot can be done. Umeed, with its outstanding skills and remarkable competence has taken the initiative to strengthen the positive forces, to enhance the health of our youth and thus influencing the future of us all. I am proud to be a part of Umeed in its triumph and glory and wish its founder director Ms. Salony Priya and its valued members many prosperous years of service to humanity.
