The Board
The Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute's Board of Directors is comprised of 12 members from vastly different and yet significantly complementary professional backgrounds enabling us to pursue our Mission with dedication and resolve. GWEI Board Members Officers Arun Gandhi - President Joanna Amaral - Secretary Robert Shallenberg - Treasurer Members of the Board (alphabetical) Anish Prasad - Chairman Anish.Prasad(at)gandhiforchildren.org Anish ...
The Spirit of M.K. Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom ...
Volunteers Needed
All that we’ve accomplished has been made possible through the generosity of individuals who care enough to donate their time, services and have taken the courageous action to give back. Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute is always looking for new volunteers and has no shortage of opportunity to apply your unique skills ...
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The Gandhi Institute, under the direction of Arun Gandhi (fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) is proposing the establishment of a boarding/day school in the town of Kolhapur, focused on providing a free education and supportive community environment in which rural village children can experience a childhood of development and preparation ...
History of Sunanda Gandhi Memorial School
Built on the shoulders of the Avani residential school for children, the Sunanda Gandhi Memorial Home and School will partner with Avani and expand its courageous work. Five acres of land have been acquired in the village Vashi on the outskirts of the city of Kolhapur. The hope is to ...
About GWEI
The Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute has embarked on an ambitious multi-pronged program to help eradicate the scourge of poverty and human degradation. Gandhi said: "Poverty is the worse form of violence," and must be tackled on all fronts to ensure human rights and human dignity to those who are victims ...
Partners
In addition to the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, two other registered tax-exempt public organizations are involved in the planning and execution of this project. They are: The Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, Mumbai, India Founded in 1995 the foundation exists to spread Gandhi’s message of nonviolence, including its integral concept of “Sarvodaya” (the welfare of ...
Spinning Khadi for Peace
Rita Kapur Chisti, is the founder of Ananda Delhi Textile, an organization devoted to the marriage of organic cotton farming and hand spinning in the production of khadi, the Indian textile championed by Gandhi. Gandhi’s vision of “swaraj” or self-rule was centered in part on the rejuvenation of the village ...
About Our Mission
Vision
Built on the shoulders of the Avani residential school for children, the Sunanda Gandhi Memorial
Upcoming Events
Gandhian Legacy Tour
Global Exchange Reality Tours and Dr. Arun Gandhi are proud to offer “The Gandhian Legacy Travel
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Gandhi Worldwide Blog
Remembering King: Radical Organizor or Safe Icon
895 streets in the America are named Martin Luther King Jr. Hundreds of clinics, community centers, hospitals and parks throughout the nation also bear his name. No other modern American figure’s name has been attached to so many civic places, said Derek Alderman, a professor of geography at the University of East Carolina who studies [...]
46 Women to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
A New Year's Resolution to Raise Awareness. Very cool! 46 Women to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – The Freedom Climb, an initiative of Operation Mobilization (OM), is raising awareness and funds to combat oppression, slavery, exploitation, and global trafficking. This event is symbolic of the challenging climb that victims face while [...]
Anuradha Bhosale rescues child laborers and rehabilitates them
Jeevaba Nana Park, where the Avani residential home is located is 7 kilometers from Kolhapur city. Avani is working on the prevention of the many aspects of child exploitation. With scarcity of infrastructure and help of local donors is trying to support children from the deprived classes. The children are provided food, clothes, shelter, proper [...]
New Beginnings, a Poem, Invocation, & Invitation for 2012
NEW BEGINNINGS ——— Another year, another day and the dark slowly gives way to in its annual cycle into the light of day. We are on an ascending ladder to Jacob's Bright House as we dance midstream between the light and dark of old times and new beginnings. We who have committed to walk [...]
Protect Children During Super Bowl!
Earlier this year we blogged about the darkest side of the Super Bowl: in recent years it (and other major sports events) has been invaded by human traffickers. They're attracted by the large profits to be made in peddling prostitutes, including girls as young as 13, in the shadows of the nation's most high-profile sporting [...]
5 Million Child Labourers in India
Nearly 5 million children are still engaged as laborers across the country, Indian Labor Minister Mallikarjun Kharge informed the government yesterday. The Labor Minister, made it clear that the number of child laborers in the country was declining, however. “As per Census 2001, there were 5 million working children in the country in the age [...]
Declan Galbraith sings ‘Tell Me Why’
Declan John Galbraith (born 19 December 1991, Hoo St Werburgh, Kent) is an English singer. He is best known for his 2002 hit single, "Tell Me Why", which peaked at #29 in the UK Singles Chart. Enjoy his heartfelt message of hope for all victimized children.His first self-titled album, Declan, with Irish traditional songs and [...]
Child labour probed in Nestle cocoa fields
Source: The Hindu The world's biggest food company, Nestle SA, says it will work with a non-profit group to investigate child labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast that supply its factories. Little has changed in the decade since the Swiss company and other major chocolate makers signed a U.S.-brokered international agreement in September 2001 [...]
In Palm Springs Arun Gandhi Spreads Message of Peace
Source: Catalyst House Blog | Photo Credit: Wade Nomura P reaching the message of peace and nonviolence at the recent Peace Conference in Palm Spring, California, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi said, "Over the years we have been feeding the wrong wolf in us, and so we have seen this escalation of violence." The conference was [...]
Gandhi Spoke at Montessori London 1931
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." – Mohandas Gandhi Dr. Maria Montessori met Mahatma Gandhi in the beginning of October, 1931 in London. Then on October 28, 1931 Gandhi spoke at the [...]
Breaking News on Child Poverty, Education & Trafficking
- India sends exaggerated reports to UN on child rights Worldnewscom January 27, 2012Article 32 Children have a right to be protected from child labour By Govind Sapera India. Open Video Suggestions. Cartoons for Child RightsEducationIndia ...article.wn.com/.../India_sends_exaggerated_reports_to_UN_o... […](author unknown)
- Google Donates £7.5m Grant To Global Fight Against Modern Day ... January 27, 2012Money will go to 10 intervention and education organisations working in India, Europe and US to eradicate slave labour. Google is donating £7.5m ($11.5m) in ... […]openPR
- LEST WE FORGET.....on 28th January 2012 January 26, 2012Indian constitution guaranteed) right to exercise our right to elect our ... domestic violence, trafficking, child labor and issues of child soldiers etc ... […]E-Pao.net
- Untying knots of human trafficking January 26, 2012Of the victims of Human trafficking, 43% are used for forced commercial sexual ... India and China are such examples, where in spite of the booming economy; ... […]Pakistan Observer
- Meeting of Newly Constituted “Central Advisory Board” on Child ... January 25, 2012News on Anti Trafficking in India and South Asia – NATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH ... Child Labour is an area of great concern and Government of India is ... they are provided with bridge education, vocational training, stipend of Rs. 150/-, ...traffickingnews.wordpress.com/.../meeting-of-newly-constitute... […](author unknown)
- Child Labour News: Child Labourers in Indian Cotton Industry Get ... January 25, 2012There may be as many as half a million child labourers in India's cotton industry, ... In the state of Gujarat, some of these youngsters sacrifice their education to ... labour include slavery, prostitution, pornography, human and drug trafficking and ...www.soschildrensvillages.ca/.../child-labourers-india-cotton-1... […](author unknown)
