A year ago, Feel Good Friday highlighted the work of
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani advocate for girls education and today she shares the
Nobel Peace Prize with another Feel Good Friday subject, Indian child rights campaigner and founder of
GoodWeave, Kailash Satyarthi! On this Feel Good Friday we're going to share more good news about education in this part of the world.
The
Parikrma Humanity Foundation was founded in 2003 in Bangalore by Shukla Bose. As stated on their website, "Parikrma's ambition is to ensure that quality education is accessible to marginalized children."
Children from the poorest slums in Bangalore typically go to government run schools, when they go at all. The education provided is substandard and dropout rates are high. To combat this Parikrma's model focuses not only on delivering top quality education with an emphasis on learning English, but also 3 meals a day and comprehensive health care and family care.
Parikrma schools educate students from levels K-12, afterwards they provide scholarships to college or vocational training before placing the children in jobs. With four schools and 1500 students, Parikrma is making a huge difference in the lives of these children and their families!
To learn more you can read this
in-depth article from the Christian Science Monitor and watch a
short video with fabulous music that shows how much change you can affect with 1/2 a day's salary.
To get involved as an international volunteer check
this link. As always, an easy way to keep yourself educated about what Parikrma is doing is by liking their
Facebook page or following them on Twitter @parikrma
I first learned about this while swooning over, I mean reading this Huffington Post article. Yes, it has pictures.
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