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by parulgupta8ue on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: education library books literacy
Room to Read's mission is to provide under-privileged children with an opportunity to gain the lifelong gift of education. It was founded on the belief that education is crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty and taking control of one's life. They currently focus efforts on Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Africa, and Zambia. R2R's successful strategy for addressing the lack of educational opportunities for children in the developing world includes: * Partnering with villages to build schools * Establishing libraries and filling them with donated English bo
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Camels carry mobile library service to isolated Kenyan communities

by parulgupta8ue on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: mobile library kenya books reading literacy
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IBT.. Rural Educational program

by Goli on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: education training vocational ibt vigyan aashram
This video talks about IBT program (Introduction to basic Technology) which has been pioneered by Vigyan Aashram. It is a course introduced in 8th, 9th 10th like any other subject in schools. As name suggests this course gives basic introduction to carpentary, animal husbandry, agriculture, electrical, health etc. The idea of this course is to make make education more relevant for rural children and enable them to become entrepreneurs.
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Cant attend regular school? Try Open School

by Goli on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: education government schooling
Open School, i.e. National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is a Government of India initiative started in 1989. The whole idea behind this concept is that children can learn at their own pace using specifically designed self-instructional materials. Children have the option for appearing for the exam as per convenience. There is the provision for credit accumulation. Today the problem with lot of these under privileged or street children or children of migrant laborers is that they cannot attend regular school. Some of them owing to their domestic condition drop out of the school and
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Global Warming: An experience...

by mynk on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Environment Tags: climate change global warming students
CMCA - The Civic Club Initiative in Schools is an attempt to increase awareness amongst the children about the environment. They had organized an event whereby they had setup stalls for various environment issues. I volunteered for the global warming stall. I was requested to search for videos on the subject from National Geographic and such. I wasn't sure how interested the kids would be in such issues - does it even register in their carefree world but I was amazed at their keen interest - I had their undivided attention! :) The above video played on my laptop but my laptop speakers fa
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Teach India - a Times of India initiative for education

by Sabith on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: education opportunity teach
What is Teach India? Teach India is a social initiative from The Times of India that brings together children in need of education and people who can contribute a little time towards teaching them. It is based on one simple principle: If you have the desire to teach, we will put you in touch with children who are willing to learn. To begin with, we are rollling it out in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. We hope to extend it to more cities next year after we have perfected the logistics. The United Nations Volunteers programme is a partner with the Times of India for the Teach India initi
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Emerging Tech classrooms

by nitiniitk on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: web2.0 online education e-learning
A set of slides on the future of education. Presentation was made to UNESCO eLearning International seminar on Web 2.0 and education. The next generation of education is going to include computers and web-technologies. Will these remain limited to the rich, or will these also be accessible to the poor, is an open question. Emerging Tech Classrooms
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Shiksha Sopan: experiments with alternative primary education

by nitiniitk on Jul 27, 2008      Category: Education Tags: rural science primary education experiments
Shiksha Sopan is an initiative of IIT Kanpur community to provide education to underprivileged kids in the villages close to the campus. The target group includes kids who are from poor families, and many of these kids do not have access to regular school education. Shiksha sopan has been exploring various approaches to provide them meaningful education, beyond the textbooks, to make education both interesting and useful to them. One of the successful projects was to develop low-cost science experiment kits for wide use.The video shown below (in Hindi for most part), shows some these activitie
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Dr. Catherine Hamlin Devoted healer of injured women in Africa

by Sabith on Jul 26, 2008      Category: Health & Disability Tags: health fistula maternal health
When Catherine Hamlin and her husband Reginald, both physicians, arrived in Ethiopia in 1959 to establish a midwifery school, they thought they would be back home in Australia in two years. Today, at 83, Catherine Hamlin is still there, continuing the work she and her husband began in their youth – giving the young women of Ethiopia a second chance at life by repairing fistulas, the devastating internal injury many are left with after childbirth. A fistula is a hole that develops between a woman's bladder or rectum and her vagina when blood is cut off to those tissues during a long or
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NGO Maya plans to turn labour cooperative into a for-profit venture

by parulgupta8ue on Jul 26, 2008      Category: Economics & Business Tags: business labour social security cooperative
Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA), a Bangalore-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that has brought together construction workers in a cooperative called LabourNet, plans to spin it off into a profit-making venture in an effort to scale up operations across the country and tap into a boom in the infrastructure and construction businesses.LabourNet was formed by MAYA in an attempt to help labourers earn better wages, provide them accident and health insurance, and train them. It has around 4,000 labourers in its network in Bangalore.
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