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		<title>Samarthanam: a vision for the future for the visually disabled</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samrathanam was founded by Mahantesh, who is also visually disabled, to help provide opportunities for deserving, young, and talented children with disability of any form, or from marginalized economic backgrounds. Over the years they have built a school that provides education for over 600 disabled children and is designed to meet the needs of the physically challenged. Read more about this amazing organization and how they are helping make the disadvantaged self sufficient productive members of society at 
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, the first Akanksha center opened for children from the slum communities of Mumbai, an innovative after school program designed to provide them with fun, engaging learning opportunities.  When we decided to visit India around December, we made sure that we had set aside some time to visit Akanksha at one of their facilities. Read about this wonderful NGO and our visit to one of their schools.  More at <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com">http://blog.ambientengines.com</a> <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com/2010/03/21/akanksha-engaging-children-in-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&amp;blog=3998279&amp;post=614&amp;subd=socialecosystem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to the Agastya Center in Kuppam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I had written an article about an interesting organization, Agastya, that was transforming rural education in India by bringing a fresh new approach to teaching and introducing science and technology concepts to parts of the country that are typically ignored. Since then I was fortunate to visit Agastya founder Ramji Raghavan in Bangalore and accompany him to their Agastya Center in Kuppam. <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com/2009/02/27/a-visit-to-the-agastya-center-in-kuppam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&amp;blog=3998279&amp;post=366&amp;subd=socialecosystem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agastya  &#8211; transforming education in India</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/10/09/agastya-transforming-education-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to visit Agastya's operations in Hubli earlier this year. Agastya is a NGO based in India that is hoping to transform the educational system by making it more interactive, experimental and interesting for children. Recently Ramji Raghavan, Agastya's founder visited Boston and I had occasion to meet and hear him speak passionately about why he started Agastya after a career in banking. <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/10/09/agastya-transforming-education-in-india/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&amp;blog=3998279&amp;post=290&amp;subd=socialecosystem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OLPC India Tidbits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are tracking the progress of OLPC in India, here are few tidbits gleaned from the web: A fairly in-depth description of the OLPC pilot and a recent update on Nick Negroponte's visit to Mumbai in August. <a href="http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/08/21/olpc-india-tidbits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&amp;blog=3998279&amp;post=169&amp;subd=socialecosystem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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