Ninash Foundation: Compassion in Action, A Kitchen Table Local Charity
Meeting Link
Start Date
29-3-2021 4:00 PM
End Date
29-3-2021 4:45 PM
Presentation Type
Presentation
Primary Theme
Shared Perspectives
Secondary Theme
Ethics
Description
Dr. Ashok Kumar Malhotra, President and Mrs. Linda Marie Drake, Treasurer of the Ninash Foundation (ww.ninash.org) are celebrating 25 Years of Promoting Literacy in India.
We believe that illiteracy among female and minority children of India is the root cause of issues like overpopulation, poverty and poor health, racial and religious conflicts in India. Through the “Ninash Foundation: A Kitchen Table Local Charity,” our team has been promoting literacy in remote villages of India where majority of these underserved illiterate children live. For the past 25 years, the Ninash Foundation has built seven schools in the remote villages of Dundlod and Mahapura in Rajasthan and Kuran and Sagbara in Gujarat.
Ninash’s experiment of promoting literacy among 50 female and minority children in 1996 is now bearing tremendous dividends in these four villages. Now in 2021, there are more than 1800 children getting superb education by learning four languages (regional language of Gujarati or Rajasthani, national language of Hindi, International language of English and Global language of Computer) in these remote villages. More than 250 graduates from these schools are now going to colleges of their choice completing degrees in medicine, engineering, computers, business and other secretarial professions along with opening their private businesses.
Alongside promoting literacy among the neglected female and minority children, Ninash has undertaken such successful projects as: giving away more than 400 dairy goats to the poorest of the poor villagers (Linda will talk about her pet project), water filtration for clean drinking water, funds for building roads as well as parks, playgrounds, libraries, computers, books and recreational games such as basketball, ping pong table, musical instruments, cricket set, volleyball net, carom and equipment for exercise.
This educational experiment also has had a ripple effect leading to building self-esteem in the people who in turn have started new businesses as well as hospitals in their villages. Through this faster growth, each village is now able to get its fair share in the developing economy of India.
Recommended Citation
Malhotra, Ashok K. Ph.D, "Ninash Foundation: Compassion in Action, A Kitchen Table Local Charity" (2021). Open Educational Resources Conference. 7.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/oer_conference/2021/Schedule_march29/7
Ninash Foundation: Compassion in Action, A Kitchen Table Local Charity
https://kean-edu.zoom.us/j/97540825826
Dr. Ashok Kumar Malhotra, President and Mrs. Linda Marie Drake, Treasurer of the Ninash Foundation (ww.ninash.org) are celebrating 25 Years of Promoting Literacy in India.
We believe that illiteracy among female and minority children of India is the root cause of issues like overpopulation, poverty and poor health, racial and religious conflicts in India. Through the “Ninash Foundation: A Kitchen Table Local Charity,” our team has been promoting literacy in remote villages of India where majority of these underserved illiterate children live. For the past 25 years, the Ninash Foundation has built seven schools in the remote villages of Dundlod and Mahapura in Rajasthan and Kuran and Sagbara in Gujarat.
Ninash’s experiment of promoting literacy among 50 female and minority children in 1996 is now bearing tremendous dividends in these four villages. Now in 2021, there are more than 1800 children getting superb education by learning four languages (regional language of Gujarati or Rajasthani, national language of Hindi, International language of English and Global language of Computer) in these remote villages. More than 250 graduates from these schools are now going to colleges of their choice completing degrees in medicine, engineering, computers, business and other secretarial professions along with opening their private businesses.
Alongside promoting literacy among the neglected female and minority children, Ninash has undertaken such successful projects as: giving away more than 400 dairy goats to the poorest of the poor villagers (Linda will talk about her pet project), water filtration for clean drinking water, funds for building roads as well as parks, playgrounds, libraries, computers, books and recreational games such as basketball, ping pong table, musical instruments, cricket set, volleyball net, carom and equipment for exercise.
This educational experiment also has had a ripple effect leading to building self-esteem in the people who in turn have started new businesses as well as hospitals in their villages. Through this faster growth, each village is now able to get its fair share in the developing economy of India.