I had written about Asha and her story of running the SVVN school, despite the innumerable number of challenges, in my previous posts (post 1 and post 2). A quick recap, the school currently serves the needs (educational as well as nutritional) of 305 children (153 boys and 152 girls) from the most underprivileged sections [...]
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Another Amul in the making
Posted in Education on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When Ramji Raghavan called us this last wednesday to invite us over to the “Friends of Agastya” meeting, we jumped at it, cleared other things from our calendar, to be at the meeting and it was 4 hours well spent. Ramji through Agastya has done a phenomenal job of transforming education in rural India. Yes, [...]
Transforming Rural India through education
Posted in Education on November 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wrote about Ramji Raghavan and Agastya in my very first blog post. Words seem hollow when I sit down to describe the kind of effort Ramji has put in. There are several intersections I see between the work Art of Living is doing in the education sector and the very innovative and successful model [...]
Water Literacy
Posted in Current Affairs, Education on July 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today’ issue of Bangalore Mirror carried a cover story regarding acute shortage of water in the suburbs and upcoming areas of Bangalore. And I stumbled upon a report on how a private high school in Sirsi, in northern Karnataka is teaching practical water literacy to the people of five Malnad districts. The rain centre at [...]
Toys that teach
Posted in Education on June 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Far away from the world of Barbie’ and Picachoo’s, you can find eco-friendly, hand-made, non-toxic toys and educational material for your kids here. In the contemporary educational system, learning consists of cramming facts sans understanding and questioning. There is no space for creative self-expression. Adding a totally new dimension to education is Sutradhar, a Bangalore–based [...]
