As of May 2023, The Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute’s (GWEI) Nevada now known as the Ahimsa Peace Institute (API) a 501c3 was founded in Arun Gandhi’s honor in order to carry on his final requests of its founder. We are grateful we are one of his seeds of light asked to carry on, as his […]
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The AVANI Children’s Home Challenge
March 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Of the estimated 85 million child laborers in India today, over 40,000 of them work in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. Many of these children have been sold or forced into hazardous occupations and commercial sex work. Girls suffer the most. It is AVANI’s mission to work alongside children from the homeless, migrant and nomadic communities. […]
The Gandhi For Children Bracelet (#GandhiBracelet) is the
Official Bracelet for Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute.
History Legacy (Program Closed) Gandhi Worldwide 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 of societal exploitation. Mere […]
My Son Grant’s Remorse
November 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
My Son Grant’s Remorse by Anuradha Bhosale Married women involving themselves in genuine social activism face a daily dilemma. Their family responsibilities and their extra – familial duties clash like cymbals, sometimes ear – splitting so. Living tends to become more a racket of conflicting interests rather than an ensemble of harmonizing sounds. At the extremes the […]
Two Leaves and a Bud (cont)
October 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
— Two leaves and a Bud (continued from part-1) Free English rendering : Arun Chavan Original Marathi by : Anuradha Bhosale Akshay’s granny is no longer working for a living. Age has finally caught up with her. For the past two years she is more or less tied to her hovel. I was able to persuade Saurabh […]
Two Leaves and a Bud
October 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
TWO LEAVES AND A BUD AVANI office and school is at one end of the town, the southern end. The main market, the shopping centres and the government offices are near about one another and are situated at its other end. My work often takes me into these sections. Our main stationery supplier, Neta Stores, the printing service […]
Remembering Little Krishna
September 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Six years ago I had been to the village of Udgaon to have a look at the brickyards on the river bank. There I came across two kids in a family of migrant labor employed at the brick kiln. There I met Krishna of 6 years and his younger brother. Upon asking if they were […]
Beware of Pity Part 2
September 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
> Continued from Beware of Pity part-1 … We looked to her for the past few years as our showpiece, our success story. We have tried all possible alternatives but to no avail. She likes cooking. Therefore we thought of giving her training in hospitality or catering. but she did not show any interest in building […]
Beware of Pity
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Original Marathi by: Anuradha Bhosale English rendering: Arun Chavan Come to think of it, the students of AVANI Residential School are the flotsam of the turbulent oceans of life. They are living embodiments of pain-filled stories and traumatic upheavals that are far beyond the tolerance thresholds of their tender souls. Having known the stories whose pathos […]
GWEI and AVANI: A New Revelation
September 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As it appears right now, people may get the impression that we are still planning a Sunanda Memorial School and that is not right because the Board of Directors has taken a decision to call it “Gandhi Center for Learning.” I think this write up will put everything in perspective. GWEI and AVANI Partnership After […]
Pariah By Association Part 2
September 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Original Marathi by: Anuradha Bhosale English rendering: Arun Chavan For a long time the nethermost deprived sections of society were not taken notice of by the economic planners of the country. Now we are in the XII five year plan period and the 66th year of independence. Yet the special development needs of these sections, which mainly comprise nomadic […]
Pariah By Association
September 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Anuradha Bhosale continues with another story of life and the struggle to bring a better life to the nomadic children of Kolhapur India…. There was a bit of controversy about the prevalence of child labour in Kolhapur district. When I enquired of the concerned wing of the district administration about the incidence of child labour […]
Hoping Against Hope
September 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In 2005 we received heavy showers within a short time span. Kolhapur’s main river, Panchganga and its major tributary, Bhogawati, burst their banks and flooded vast areas. That year is particularly memorable for me and my co-workers because our fledgeling residential school for deprived children near the river’s high floodline at Donawade village got severely damaged. We had at that time 23 […]
Discover the Living Legacy of Gandhi
August 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Source Gandhi Legacy Tour: The Legacy of Gandhi Beckons by Tushar Gandhi Welcome to a journey of discovery of the living legacy of Gandhi. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mahatma, Bapu as we call him with affection said ‘My life is my message.’ The Legacy tour revisits the philosophy of Gandhi by visiting various places where the […]
Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute Financial History
Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (“GWEI”) (dba) a/k/a Ahimsa Peace Institute (“API”) North Las Vegas, Nevada Founded May 15, 2023 Nevada 501(c)(3) Public Charity EIN 93-1341491 | D-U-N-S number: 130895895 SAM UNIQUE ENTITY ID: HFEYABVNWMF3 Cage number: 9QNH9 | Q33 International Relief www.gandhiforchildren.org The mission of Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (GWEI), d/b/a Ahimsa Peace Institute (API), […]