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An Educational Community
The Omprakash Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 organization that aims to be an educational resource for the world by leading people out into a community through which diverse local needs and assets can be expressed and shared on a global scale. As we help facilitate communication and collaboration between donors, volunteers, and grassroots health and education projects around the world, all of us become increasingly educated and aware our of own interconnectedness. We strive to allow a global community to support the education of its children, and at the same time, to allow the world’s children the realization of such a community. At the very least, we hope that this website will encourage its visitors to reflect upon their roles as global citizens, and that this act– even if largely imaginative– will be educational in and of itself. Read more about our vision>>
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What We Do
-We work to create partnerships with diverse grassroots health and education projects that need human and material resources, and offer space on our website for each partner to represent itself and its needs to a global audience. We encourage you to read more about our partners and consider volunteering or donating. Our Partners>>
- We provide informational and financial resources to people who want to volunteer their services at a project in need. Volunteer Opportunities>> or Volunteer Grants>>
- We allow donors and fundraisers to build relationships with projects of their choice and support these projects from afar. Fundraising Opportunities>> or Donations>>
-We help our partners publish innovative learning materials, and offer our website as a platform where these resources can be developed and shared. Educational Resources>>
- By promoting dialogue across cultures and borders, we empower everyone involved to become conscious participants in processes of social transformation. If visiting this site has been helpful to you, please write on our Message Board>>
You can help NOW! This Season’s Featured Partner
Project Why offers educational support to over 600 children in New Delhi, India. What’s most exciting is their sustainability plan: by building an eco-friendly guesthouse that will generate enough income to cover all operating expenses for its ten satellite schools, Project Why is taking a crucial step towards future self-sufficiency. Get involved with Project Why>>
What’s New- Winter 2009
To learn more about our past activities, read our History or our record of Funds Disbursed.
- In cooperation with the American Medical Resources Foundation (www.amrf.com), we are working to raise enough money to send a container of used medical supplies from Boston to our partner Hospital Escuela in Nicaragua. The cost of sending these supplies will be around $20,000, but the total value of the supplies will be around $700,000. Our aim is to connect this project with schools and community members in Brunswick, Maine, and to integrate the entire community into the fundraising effort. Please consider joining this effort or bringing it to your own community.
-We are pleased to announce that we have recently formed new Partnerships with organizations in India, Tibet, Uganda, Kenya, and Argentina.
-Project Why, one of our partners during the 2008 India Book Distribution, recently finished building a new library New Delhi. The library will be open to all children in the area and will cater especially towards children enrolled in Project Why’s schools and tutoring centers.
-In January, 2008, we awarded a Volunteer Grant to a young woman from Maine who will be traveling to a Tibetan area of western China to volunteer at our partnerschool the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls. Learn more about recent grant recipients>>
-In December, 2008, our network of donors and fundraisers enabled us to support the educational work of Helping Hands in Cusco, Peru, and Rainbow Academy in northeast India.
-In October, 2008, we donated $10,000 to the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust to continue our support of their new after-school center in Guguletu township in Cape Town, South Africa.
-In September, 2008, we awarded Volunteer Grants to two Americans who will soon be volunteering at Helping Hands in Cusco, Peru, and at RAWA in Kabul, Afghanistan.
-In September, 2008, we donated $3,000 to the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls, one of our partners in Tibet, to enable them to pay the salaries of three teachers and the headmaster for three months.
- During this past summer, we distributed over 200,000 children’s books to schools and libraries throughout India. Learn more about the Book Distribution Project>>
-In June, 2008, we donated $25,000 to help LHA buy a new headquarters building in Dharamsala. This new building contains a library that will be open to the entire community, and also gives LHA more space to conduct its language and computer classes. What’s even better is that this new building will also make LHA entirely self-sufficient and sustainable for years to come: the building will hold several locally-owned businesses, and the income from these businesses will cover all of LHA’s yearly expenses. Learn more about our partnership with LHA>>
-In July, 2008, we donated $15,000 to enable Project Why to continue paying classroom rent, teacher salaries, and other operating costs as resources and energy begin shifting towards establishing its “Planet Why” guesthouse and increasing sustainability. More than one-third of this donation was made possible by Microsoft, Inc., as part of its matching-grant program. Learn more about our partnership with Project Why>>