Education Initiatives
Jamyang School The Jamyang School is a secular boarding school with the aim of offering free education as well as guiding children in ethically and environmentally friendly behavior. The construction work at the totally undeveloped property began in June 2007 with a donation from the Dalai Lama Trust. Within a year, the infrastructure for water and electricity has been laid and a hostel has been completed, which also served as the school building in the first year. Projects Supported: Computer Literacy, Solar Power, and Community Leadership and Ethics Programs
Shaheed Baikunth Shukul Balika Vidyalaya Shaheed Baikunth Shukul Balika Vidyalaya is primary and secondary schools providing much needed education to girls in poor villages. Projects Supported: Vocational Training and Stationary Supplies
Basic literacy skills and education still remains a challenge for majority of population in India. Prajnopaya has launched an innovative program that aims to deliver literacy skills through digital tablets and programs right into the community. In Fall of 2014, 2 pilots were launched in impoverished communities of India targeting young kids. Projects Supported: Cost of Teachers, Tablets and other infrastructure
Transformative Teachers India Ethics and values based learning program for teachers to facilitate implementing of ethics programs in middle and high schools in India. Projects Supported: Cost of Teachers and other infrastructure
Science, Monks, & Technology Leadership A program specifically designed for young Tibetans living in diaspora communities. This program bring together a group of exceptional young individuals to train them in leadership and technology skills to design and implement a number of interventions that would help improve the life of diaspora communities. Some of these projects have been scaled up:
Projects Supported: Cost of program and seed funding for peer approved projects
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