Our location in a degraded landscape has brought to the people at Rishi Valley the challenge of a long-range agenda for regeneration through education. That agenda has served to guide our efforts by teaching us to care for the earth, to share our technical resources with our neighbours and to help them rebuild green spaces in their villages. Over the past three decades we have built solid bridges to the local village population through our work in rural education, rural health, reforestation, bio-diversity conservation and watershed management. There are now 15 Satellite Schools, a teacher training facility and a curriculum development cell RIVER, health and sanitation programmes and an herbal garden located within a 3-mile radius of Rishi Valley.

The Rural Education Centre is located on 14 acres of land on Rishi Valley Education Centre Campus. Its two wings consist of Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources with two attached multi-grade model schools; a Back to School Programme and a Middle School that caters to students from our Satellite schools, with an emphasis on the girl child.

Aims of the Programme

• To promote village-based education
• To train teacher trainers in a multi-grade classrooms
• To publish instructional material for village schools
• To draw working children into the school system
• To create a green space around the school campus for the conservation of bio-diversity in general and medicinal plants in particular
• To establish adult literacy classes in the school premises
• To raise awareness of health, nutrition and sanitation
• To actively involve the community in the day-to-day management of the school

For further information contact Director of River at: yaprao@rishivalley.org