Pakistani Educational Leadership Institute

Hi!
Martin

It was really great to learn the exciting and amazing good news by your side that I am one of the lucky ones who are being blessed to be at PSU to become skilled at educational leadership for Pakistan.

As, you want to know “Who am I and where I came form”

I was born in a Christian family, on 29th Nov. 1979, in Lahore, brought up in a small Christian well known village “Clarkabad” District “Kasur” Punjab. Parents are teachers. At present my father Mr. Robin Griffin is retired and unluckily a bedridden patient of paralyses and mother Mrs. Ishrat Robin is still serving in a missionary school of Lahore diocese. Both had served in Peshawar Diocesan schools for two decades. I am the only son of my parents and have two sisters too. Both the sisters are married, as I am. God has blessed me with two daughters “Jennifer” and “Jemima”. Jennifer is school going, studies in class prep while the other is of a year and nine months.

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As far as my education is concerned, after passing grade three from the native school i.e. St. Monica’s High school, Clarkabad. I completed rest of my schooling from Mardan (N.W.F.P) the northern state of Pakistan, and earned graduation and B.Ed. degrees form Peshawar University. The grounds behind was that my parents got a teaching job at Peshawar Diocesan schools in 1989 and had to migrate with family to N.W.F.P.

My teaching journey started after doing my F.Sc. Circumstances compelled me to teach tuitions and teaching in different Missionary schools. Later, a year awhile I got a good job in St. Joseph High School, Risalpur as a secondary school teacher (under the management and control of Convent Sisters). There along with service I earned my graduation degree as well as professional degree (B.Ed.). I served there more than four years.

Then again twist of time, paved my way back to Lahore, as my mother-in-law and aunt ( my father’s sister) got serious, since was a heart patient, her trauma dragged me again to my home back (Lahore).
Fortunately, within a month I got a teaching job at Christ Church School, Youhanna Abad, Lahore. as a secondary school teacher taught English and Social-Studies to elementary classes. Here, I served for a year and half and then in July 2005 in stepped in as a subject teacher in Sanjan Nagar Public Education Trust School. The reason to join SNPET was, it is one of the best and leading schools of not only in our locality but I can proudly say that it is the best one of the best schools of the city, which is well equipped and above all it is for the deprived families and here students of every religion are welcomed and treated equally without any discrimination. Now, I am taking English and Social-Studies and Science in junior and elementary classes.

Today, I am living happy and joyous life with my family in Christ’s grace.

With regards,
Saimon Robin.