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Ankur Bora speaking to Parijat teacher
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Social work Award
Raja Ram Mohan Award 2010
Initiated by Akhil Ranjan Das, Founder of Lincoln's Institute of Personality
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>>
Read our latest newsletter>> or past letters>> and email ashley@omprakash.org to sign up for our e-newsletter!
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.
To know more abour Omprakash Foundation
visit www.omprakash.org
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>>
Read our latest newsletter>> or past letters>> and email ashley@omprakash.org to sign up for our e-newsletter!
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.
To know more abour Omprakash Foundation
visit www.omprakash.org
EIWA Social Service Award
EASTER INDIA WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONSocial Service Award 2009
Easter India Women's Association Social Service Award 2009 confered to Parijat Academy
Uttam Teron on behalf of Parijat Academy received at Guwahati on 27th December 2009.
Uttam Teron on behalf of Parijat Academy received at Guwahati on 27th December 2009.
Social service award conferred on Parijat Academy
Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Dec 27 – The Eastern India Women’s Association today conferred its first Social Service Award-2009 on Parijat Academy, an institution providing free education to the children of the underprivileged sections of the society.At a solemn function organised today, noted social activist Anjali Baruah gave the award to Uttam Teron, founder of the academy.Parijat Academy was started by Teron at the Pamohi village near the Deepor Beel in 2003 with a pair of desk-bench and four students in a temporary tin-roofed shelter. The poor and underprivileged children get education here almost free of cost. Now, the 497 students get education inthe academy from Class I to IX.The award given every two years carries a cheque of Rs 30,000, a silver plaque and a citation.The academy is getting help from well-wisher organisa-tions and individuals. Many volunteers from the country and abroad have come willingly to impart education to such children in this academy.Speaking on the occasion, Teron said that the academy has also started vocational training for the students including weaving and embroidery, to make them self-employed. “Students from the backward areas are usually hesitant to mix up with others. That is why we are planning to send them to youth meets, cultural festivals, etc., so that they learn to exchange thoughts and ideas with the other students,” he mentioned.The academy has also been encouraging the parents of the poor tribal students to start small savings, for higher education of their children.“The association has been giving awards for social service, especially in the field of women issues, for the past ten years in the name of its former president Padmasree Roshan Phukan. From this year onwards, however, the award has been renamed asthe Eastern India Women’s Association’s Social Service Award,” said Minu Choudhury, president of the Assam branch of the association.Renuka Devi Borkataki, the chairperson of the Northeast branch of the association, while speaking on the occasion stressed the need for coming forward to work for the underprivileged people. Mridula Sahariya, chairperson of the Assam State Women’s Commission and noted social activist Hem Bharali also spoke on the occasion.(The Assam Tribune,28.12.2009)
Soles for Tots
Soles for Tots
a footwear project for the children …..one step at a time
1st Shoes Distribution Ceremony on
3rd January, 2010
Venue: Parijat Academy
1st Shoes Distribution Ceremony on
3rd January, 2010
Venue: Parijat Academy
The project initiated by Alpana Bezbaruah Sarangapani and Ram Sarangapani
Alpana and Ram lives in Houston, Texas, USA.
Alpana & Ram wrote:
A child's dream
A child's dream
During one of our annual visits to Assam, our young son, felt very distraught when he noticed rickshaw wallas and poor children without any footwear. He was saddened & surprised that there were people who could not afford some of the very basic things in life. From then on, he found it very difficult to ride rickshaws, and expressed his wish that if he had all the wealth in the world, he would make sure that the less fortunate amongst us, would, at the very least, have the basic necessities of life. That was when he was a young child of 11 and those were utopian wishes of a young child immersed in idealism. But today, as we look back, we try to see the world through our son’s eyes, and we would like to take the first step in fulfilling this tiny, cherished dream of our son. We believe, our son taught us to look at the world with a different perspective, to be more compassionate and to try and make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate than us.
Providing shoes and footwear for the poor is not a new idea. There are a number of international organizations that already have successful projects in the US, Latin America, and in Africa. Footwear is one of the basic necessities of modern life. However, shoes or sandals are a very low priority for many of Assam's poor. Today, we realize and understand that lack of footwear can often lead to diseases and illnesses in developing countries. Further, young children may be exposed to injuries that could lead to serious.
Providing shoes and footwear for the poor is not a new idea. There are a number of international organizations that already have successful projects in the US, Latin America, and in Africa. Footwear is one of the basic necessities of modern life. However, shoes or sandals are a very low priority for many of Assam's poor. Today, we realize and understand that lack of footwear can often lead to diseases and illnesses in developing countries. Further, young children may be exposed to injuries that could lead to serious.
It is with in mind, we are planning to launch "Soles For Tots, a footwear project for the children of Assam, ....one step at a time" project in Assam. This small project aims at providing footwear to young children, as a start. Towards this end, we earnestly seek the generosity and involvement of the Assamese residents in and outside Assam. The success depends on a few factors. The sincere involvement of, and contributions from civic associations, businesses, and individuals are often the key ingredients to success of such operations. We propose to launch the project in late December, 2009.
Alpana & Ram Sarangapani, Houston Texas, USA
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