Read about our attempts and hopes here.
Gurukul is specifically concerned with the promotion of rural education efforts in India (and in the third world in general). Our focus is on education and housing, since both are indispensable for independence and self-sufficiency in this world.
Sri Vidya Trust (SVT) is a non-profit organisation operating in and around Devipuram, near Vishakapatnam, A.P.,India. SVT runs 32 non-formal education night schools, manages a local savings program, and is currently designing and developing a low cost geodesic dome house appropriate for rural areas.Gurukul has helped SVT come up with a very low-cost housing design that uses locally available raw materials, and the implementation of which engages the unskilled labor available in the villages themselves.
Gurukul has so far, through various events and fund-raising drives, raised around $13,000 for SVT's programs.
Some of us have visited SVT and have come back with photographs and video footage. We have made slide shows and video presentations to various audiences, including potential funding agencies. We now have a very interesting and informative 45 minute presentation ready. We are thinking of visiting various universities and making the slide-show presentation to student audiences at the univ's.
The idea behind such presentations is threefold:
If you would like such a presentation at your University or organisation, please get in touch. (address given below)