Community Service
Axel students don't just prepare for the world — they contribute to it. 749 hours of community service. Flood relief. The only butterfly conservation park in Northeast India. Our students learn that education is most valuable when it is given away.
40 minimum hours required for middle school students · Service is tracked and recognised
Service in action
749 hours logged. Flood relief, rural teaching, health camps, reforestation — all led by Axel students.
The programme
Community service at Axel is structured, supervised and meaningful — not a box to tick on a college application.
Middle School — 40 Hours
Students in Class VI through VIII are required to complete a minimum of 40 hours of community service across their three middle school years. Service is structured in partnership with approved NGO and government partners and supervised by Axel faculty.
Hours are recorded in each student's service log, which becomes part of their school record. Reflection and debrief sessions after each placement help students connect their experience to their academic learning.
Senior School — Sustained Commitment
Senior school students take leadership roles in community service — designing and co-running initiatives rather than simply participating in them. Class XI students have planned and led health camps, rural teaching sessions and tree-planting drives independently.
Community service at senior level is linked to the school's career orientation programme. Students who choose civil services, medicine or social work as career paths are given additional service placements aligned with their interests.
Our initiatives
Flood Relief — Assam
Every year, Axel students contribute to flood relief efforts across Assam in partnership with local NGOs. Activities include supply distribution, temporary shelter assistance, and documentation support. The 2025–26 batch contributed 80 hours in the Morigaon district alone.
Rural Teaching Programme
Senior students visit rural government schools within 30 km of the campus to assist with English and Mathematics teaching. Each visit is supervised by an Axel faculty member. Several participating teachers have requested repeat visits by the same student groups.
Health Camps
In partnership with local health workers and NGOs, Axel students help run health awareness camps in underserved communities. Activities range from blood pressure screening assistance to hygiene education sessions for children. Students from the senior science stream take a leading role.
Butterfly Conservation Park
The only butterfly conservation park in Northeast India is entirely managed by Axel students. Middle schoolers maintain habitat zones, conduct species-count surveys and lead guided tours for visiting school groups. Three new Pieridae species were recorded in 2025 and submitted to the Assam Biodiversity Board.
Tree Planting & Environmental Work
Annual tree-planting drives in the Gorbhonga forest and surrounding areas. Students have planted over 2,000 saplings in the past five years, with a survival rate monitored and maintained by the school's environmental science classes. In April 2025, Jadav Payeng — the Forest Man of India, who created a 1,360-acre forest single-handedly — inaugurated Axel's tree plantation drive across the Lokhra campus and the neighbouring MV School. Work is coordinated with the Assam Forest Department.
Campus Organic Garden
Students participate in the school's organic kitchen garden — maintained with the Karbi farming community — as part of the environmental studies curriculum. The garden supplies fresh produce to the school dining hall and teaches students about food systems and sustainable agriculture.
2024–25 — What we did
A selection of community and environmental initiatives from the past academic year.
Udayan Community Club — Feed Drive
Under the banner of Udayan, Axel's community club, students served food to the dogs at Guwahati's Veterinary Hospital — a small but deliberate act of care for animals under institutional care. The initiative reflects the school's belief that service extends beyond human communities.
Earth Day Cleanliness Drive
Students organised a plastic pick-up and cleanliness drive along Thapana Road on Earth Day. The drive was followed by a school-wide pledge for Swachhata Hi Seva 2024 and the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam tree plantation programme — combining environmental awareness with hands-on action.
Green Ambassadors — Badging Ceremony
On World Environment Day, students who completed Axel's Green Warrior programme were formally badged as Green Ambassadors. The ceremony recognised sustained environmental work — butterfly park maintenance, biodiversity surveys and campus composting — carried out across the year.
RIDS International Exchange Programme
Through the British Council's RIDS (Reciprocal International Digital Sharing) programme, Axel students engaged in exchanges with schools in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Egypt. Activities included joint geography projects on farming and rice production, virtual classroom sessions and a cultural exhibition displaying the medicinal plants of Assam.
Earth Hour 2025 — #BeWaterWise
Axel observed Earth Hour 2025 with a three-day programme centred on the theme #BeWaterWise — assemblies, pledges, water audit activities and student-led presentations on water conservation in Assam. The programme reinforced the school's environmental commitments through structured student-led action.
WWF Educators' Conclave — Raising Generation 30
Two Axel teachers attended the WWF-India Educators' Conclave 2024. The school's Principal was invited as a panelist for a panel discussion on environmental education and the next generation of conservation leaders. The recognition reflects Axel's standing in environmental education across Northeast India.
The values behind the programme
Community service is not a requirement because we need students to fill boxes on forms. It is a requirement because we believe that intellectual development without moral development is incomplete.
Real responsibility
Students are given actual tasks that matter to real people. They are not observers — they are participants, and they are held to a standard of reliability and care that reflects the school's values.
Contextual learning
Community service connects classroom knowledge to the world. A student who has run a health camp understands public health differently. A student who has taught a class understands education differently.
Gratitude and perspective
Students who have spent time in flood relief or rural teaching return to campus with a different understanding of their privilege. That understanding shapes how they use their education.
Lasting habits
We track alumni who continue service work after leaving Axel. The majority do. The habits formed here become the commitments of a lifetime.
Education in service of the community
This is what Axel was built for — students who take what they learn and give it back. Admissions are open for 2026–27.