The Shanti Bhavan school, with 160 students, was started by Abraham George, one of those brainy Indians who made it big in high-tech America. He came back to India with a single mission: to start a privately financed boarding school that would take India’s most deprived children and prove that if you gave them access to the same technologies and education that have enabled other Indians to thrive in globalization, they could, too.
I visited Mr. George’s school in February, and he took me to a classroom where 8-year-old untouchables were learning to use Microsoft Word and Excel. They were having their computer speed-typing lesson, so I challenged the fastest typist to a race. She left me in the dust — to the cheering delight of her classmates.
More here – http://www.tgfworld.org/friedman.htm
More on the school here – http://www.shantibhavanonline.org/about%20us.html
Initiative and execution of ideas like these that will make India shine!!! Deepam is surely going that way !!
Cheers
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Via : Meera Shivakumar