LEGACY HISTORY
GWEI Grant Supported Projects | Sunanda Gandhi Residential Girls School and Washi Gandhi Center for Learning
We are excited to unveil Sunanda Gandhi Residential Girls School, built on an acre of land, a beautiful example of cross culture cooperation. Next, the Sunanda and Arun Gandhi Memorial School* will be developed by the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation and expand its courageous work. In addition to the one acre of land, home of Sunanda Gandhi Residential Girls School, Mahatma Gandhi Foundation acquired five acres of land in the village of Washi on the outskirts of the city of Kolhapur. On the five acres the partners are in the process of developing a comprehensive campus for boys with residential quarters, classrooms, laboratories, workshops for various kinds of vocational training, handicraft classes and subsistence farming and a dairy. The Eco-Domes are built on the five acres in the village of Washi.
Sunanda Gandhi Residential Girls School has been completed on one acre of land. Photos by Scott Kafora
*Editor’s note: The boys residential school is being developed in Washi on 5 acres of land and has been renamed Gandhi Center for Leaning
Eco Domes built on the land in Washi. Our first visit was January 1, 2010. Video from first visit, click here.
The children will get fresh vegetables, fruits, and milk for their daily in-take. In addition, the children and their parents will be taught scientific, organic farming. The campus will be environmentally friendly, using and developing alternative technologies for various daily uses. Artisans from the community will teach traditional arts and crafts. These are just a few of the attributes we hope to achieve with the Sunanda Gandhi Residential Girls School and the Washi Gandhi Center for Learning inclusive of the Residential School for Boys.
With your support, the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute has been able to raise funds and allocate to AVANI in support of the school’s immediate need to maintain ongoing operations and care for its children.
These Gandhi Memorial’s, Sunanda Gandhi Residential Girls School and Center for Learning will also address another dilemma affecting poor children –
THE PROBLEM
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THE SOLUTION
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..GANDHI by STEPHANE CIPRE
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A Model for the World The Sunanda and Arun Gandhi Memorial AVANI Residential School and Gandhi Center for Learning at Washi, meets 7 of the 8 millennium goals set by the United Nations for this decade. What happens at this school could provide institutions in other countries with a blueprint for change.
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