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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
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