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Beautiful illustration of India, home to our girls at Shanti Bhavan!
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Just in time for lunch, here is a picture that is good enough to eat!
Rice, dahl, and curry on the side, served on a banana leaf! Christen Brandt and Kate Lord recently returned from their trip to India, visiting with students from Shanti Bhavan.
Fun Fact: Maheshwari, a Shanti Bhavan student, and her mom had to teach Christen and Kate how to eat rice with their hands!
Presenting GIRLS WHO ROCK III! Reminisce and give yourself an applause for what you were able to accomplish for girls education with the power of music by its side on the night of Friday, May 18th 2012 for She’s the First partner school Shanti Bhavan!
BEAUTIFUL henna done by Jancy, a recently graduate of Shanti Bhavan!
Check out the STF 360 photostream on flickr for more gorgeous photos from Kate Lord documenting her’s and Christen’s time in India!
A beautiful, and much loved, spot on the campus at Shanti Bhavan. Look at how brave Prathiba is by overcoming her fear and jumping from boulder to boulder!
My thought was, how do I empower these people, the poor? I could think of one way – education. One good place to put the investment is on children. Most poverty models that exist today don’t emphasize quality; they talk about quantity. If you’re going to permanently break the cycle of social and economic disadvantage, you have to do something different.
If we can create an institution – Shanti Bhavan – that would take a few children and give them the best care and the best education, and they become leaders of tomorrow, they will carry with them hundreds of others – their own families and many more. They will make their own contributions for the future generations. And if we had 100 Shanti Bhavans, we can break the cycle of social discrimination. 2,000 years of the caste system can be broken in 50 years if we would have many Shanti Bhavans.
Beautiful saris in all different colors! Check out Kate and Christen’s time sari shopping with the Shanti Bhavan graduates here.
Our friend Christen Brandt is currently in India visiting girls at Shanti Bhavan. Here she is with a Shanti Bhavan girl, Maheshwari, and her cousins blowing bubbles!
Follow along with Christen and Kate in our special project, #STF360India.
