 | Our Classroom programhelps teachers and students use our network to enrich academic curricula and implement service-learning projects—that is, projects that integrate meaningful service to our international Partners with instruction and reflection to enrich learning and foster a sense of global citizenship. We encourage our Volunteers to bring their relationships with our foreign Partners into classrooms in their home community, and we also enable interested teachers and students to reach out directly to our Partners, even if not through a Volunteer. The dialogue and relationships that emerge from this exchange can bring a more human face to the study of complex global issues such as poverty, energy consumption, and women’s rights, and we believe that this sort of learning must be the basis for positive social change. |
.jpg) | Resources:Our Classroom Resources page allows teachers, students, and Volunteers to share information, study the work of our Partners, and/or initiate service-learning projects to support our network. |
| Classroom Portal:We encourage teachers, students and Volunteers to visit our Classroom Portal so that they can connect with each other and with our Partners. Active Volunteers can serve as liaisons between classrooms and our international Partners, and can ideally visit schools in their local community after they return from volunteering. |
Our Pen Pal Forum
provides a free platform from which students around the world can engage in mutual learning by sharing their photos, ideas and experiences. To use this forum, you will have to go through a free and easy registration process.
PhotoPals:
An initiative founded and directed by Omprakash Volunteers, our PhotoPals program enables students around the world to learn about digital photography and each other through the universal language of shared images. Users can share photos and comments via our Shutterfly page, and Volunteers aiming to initiate a PhotoPals program are eligible to apply for Omprakash Camera Grants.
Seed Grant Program:
Our Seed Grant program provides startup funding to Classroom users who propose realistic, innovative service-learning projects that benefit our Partners and provide an educational experience for everyone involved.
| Our Pen Pal Forumprovides a free platform from which students around the world can engage in mutual learning by sharing their photos, ideas and experiences. To use this forum, you will have to go through a free and easy registration process. |
| PhotoPals:An initiative founded and directed by Omprakash Volunteers, our PhotoPals program enables students around the world to learn about digital photography and each other through the universal language of shared images. Users can share photos and comments via our Shutterfly page, and Volunteers aiming to initiate a PhotoPals program are eligible to apply for Omprakash Camera Grants. |
| Seed Grant Program:Our Seed Grant program provides startup funding to Classroom users who propose realistic, innovative service-learning projects that benefit our Partners and provide an educational experience for everyone involved. |
“The students were very captivated by the Omprakash Volunteer who visited to talk about his experience. This is a group of at-risk high school students who are very difficult to reach, so it’s really something to have the response he had from them. It was a great chance for them to think outside of their own daily, personal world of troubles and gain the benefit of empathy for those whose suffering is greater than their own.”
-Hester Mishkin, Riverview Foundation, Maine, USA
