Parijat Academy is Partnership with Omprakash Foundation

Parijat Academy is Partnership with
OMPRAKASH FOUNDATION

for more details visit: www.omprakash.org
The Omprakash Foundation works to build and maintain an educational community through which local needs and assets are expressed and shared on a global scale. Our free database of international partners offers opportunities for volunteering and service-learning, and we provide Volunteer Grants and Seed Grants to qualified applicants who want to build meaningful relationships with our partners.
At the very least, we hope that this website will encourage visitors to reflect upon their roles as global citizens, and that this act– even if largely imaginative– will be educational in and of itself. Read more about us and our vision>>
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Vision
The empty bowl that is our logo represents the endless potentiality that emerges when we open ourselves to others. Our greatest asset is not what we already “know”; it is our constant willingness to listen, to think, and to learn more. Through this humility, we open to new communities around the world. Through this opening, we receive new relationships, new knowledge. And through this receiving, we give.
The Omprakash Foundation is a registered 501c3 organization offering a new model of global education that empowers people everywhere to become conscious participants in processes of social transformation. Our website contains an ever-expanding database of grassroots educational projects with which we have established personal relationships. In the democratic, all-empowering spirit of YouTube and Wikipedia, the content of this website is user-generated: as people young and old travel the world to volunteer and build relationships with scattered schools and libraries, we invite them to bring these educational projects into the Omprakash network.
Each project is given the opportunity to represent its own needs on this website, and to make public its wish for volunteers, money, curricular materials, and the like. Omprakash responds to these needs by helping the world learn about them: once informed about the many foreign educational projects that need books, buildings, teachers, and other material resources, members of the Omprakash network realize that they can make a difference, and are inspired to donate or raise funds and collect other material resources under the umbrella of Omprakash. Likewise, by providing people with informational and financial resources that enable them to volunteer around the world, Omprakash also helps foreign projects find the human resources that they need.
However, Omprakash does more than simply send resources to different grassroots educational projects. Its entire methodology also educates and empowers people everywhere by enabling them to play an active role in processes of social change.
The Omprakash network enables individuals to volunteer abroad, but it is also a valuable resource for those who are not interested in volunteering but want to help in some other way: visitors can use our website to learn about the needs of specific projects, and then work to meet these needs by collecting resources under the umbrella of Omprakash. Regardless of their age, nationality, or background, people who involve themselves with the Omprakash network will suddenly realize that they can change the world– perhaps by raising money to pay for a new library in India; perhaps by encouraging high-schoolers to consider volunteering at an after-school center in South Africa; perhaps by enabling a small educational project that they know about to represent its needs on the Omprakash website.
Thus, simply by maintaining the Omprakash website and expanding the network of human relationships that it contains, the administrators of the Omprakash Foundation allow a growing number of people around the world to build relationships with each other and with grassroots educational projects. These relationships, as well as the overlapping communities that they have created, are themselves fundamentally educational and empowering: they lead people out of ignorance and passivity and into new roles as conscious, deliberate actors in processes of social change.

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