News
May, 2008
- We recently gave a $2000 grant to Sara Adamak, a volunteer who will be working with a school in Thailand this coming year.
-We are currently arranging for 100,000 books to be delivered to schools and libraries throughout India in the summer of 2008. The books will be donated to the Omprakash Foundation from Thrift Recycling Management (www.thriftrecycling.com), and Omprakash will pay for the shipping costs to transport books to a warehouse in Delhi. In total, each book will cost about ten cents to deliver from the US to India. From there, representatives and partners of Omprakash will help distribute these books to the dozens of educational projects that have requested them. The books will be in English, and intended for children grades 0-6. They will be screened in the U.S. for culturally-appropriate material. Organizations that will be receiving and helping to re-distribute books include ASHA (www.ashanet.org), LHA (www.lhaindia.org), and COVA (www.covanetwork.org). To learn more about this project, click here.
- In April, we visited The Taft School in Watertown, CT and spoke to students about ways they can become involved in The Omprakash Foundation. We hope to continue to develop a relationship with Taft students so they can use us a resource.
-In April, representatives of the Omprakash Foundation visited the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Community visits such as this one are meant to help introduce potential volunteers and fundraisers to this website. We hope that these presentations will allow us to continue expanding our network and building relationships between different communities around the world. To learn more, please click here.
-We recently donated $1000 to Neary Khmer (our health-education partner in Cambodia) for water and sanitation education and the purchase and delivery of 90 water filters to their target villages in Khnong Phnom commune. These villages are located high on a mountain in Siem Reap province and are isolated from markets and reliable water sources. To learn more about Neary Khmer and the filters they distribute, click here.
-Construction of a new library, funded by the Omprakash Foundation, is almost finished at the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls in rural Tibet (Qinghai Province, China). We recently arranged for books to be donated to this library by Benchmark Education (www.benchmarkeducation.com). On January 3rd, 2008, we transferred $2,500 to this project to begin paying for the yearly salaries of its three teachers and one headmaster. Going forward, we hope to continue supporting this project with books, funds, and volunteers. To learn more about this project, click here.
-In December, we donated $3,034 to support the educational work of Health-Inc. (http://www.health-inc.org) in Ladakh, India. This money was used to install electricity at one of the government schools that Health-Inc. supports, and also to print books that Health-Inc. has designed and distributed to schools as part of its Love2Read program. We are also thrilled to have begun posting some of Health-Inc.’s books on our website so that other educational projects can develop curricular materials based on Health-Inc.’s innovative model. To see these books, please check out our new Educational Resources page. To learn more about our relationship with Health-Inc., please click here.
-We are seeing progress with our “school lunches” program at a village school in the Lubangwe area of rural Zimbabwe. A representative of the Abercrombie and Kent Global Foundation (www.akglobalfoundation.org), a reputable foundation with an office in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, us assisting us in this project. Together, we will work to enable the school to provide a daily meal for nearly 200 children in this drought-stricken area. Click here to learn more about this project.
-Our network of volunteer opportunities continues to expand, and we hope to direct volunteers towards these needy projects as soon as possible. Newest additions to our database are in Liberia, Peru, Cambodia, Thailand, Zambia, India, the Philippines, and Nepal. Click here to read about these opportunities.