By David Purviance | Executive Director
About the Free School for Poor Village Children in India
The S.S. Prasanthi School in Andhra Pradesh, India provides a free education, uniforms, and lunch to 220 poor village children. The Prasanthi School is an ecologically sustainable institution and is a model school for rural India as global warming reduces available ground water and resources. Much of the school’s water comes from a roof-top rainwater harvesting system. Drinking water is treated with a solar powered reverse osmosis water filter. Waste water from the washrooms is passed through an organic septic system and then used to grow rice, peanuts and vegetables on the school grounds.
The entire school was built with compressed earth bricks rather than kiln-fired bricks, thereby reducing air pollution and saving valuable trees. Circular, domed classrooms break architectural style and a state-of-the-art computer lab ensures the students – who are from poor farming families – will gain the same knowledge as children from privileged middle class homes.
But in spite of their state of the art sustainability, there were empty bookshelves in their library; they lacked a key element in their students’ education.
Watch this short video to see how we fulfilled their need.
In an effort to jumpstart their library, World’s Children paid for a set of knowledge books, each on a different topic, to broaden the children’s world view. The photos of the children enjoying these new books tells the story.
We are grateful to all who have contributed to this project and to creating a spark for the love of learning through reading. World's Children will continue to provide library books to the 35 libraries we have started at orphanages and schools.
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