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Susila Dharma: meeting educational goals

This is a partial list of Susila Dharma projects that offer educational programs.

Indonesia

Bina Cita Utama (BCU) provides a bilingual international curriculum at Rugan Sari in Kalimantan. In collaboration with Yayasan Usaha Mulia and with grants from Barclays Bank, BCU has trained 100 teachers in human-based education methodology and plans to train an additional 200 teachers in 2010.

Sekolah Cita Buana is a bilingual school in Jakarta that offers an international curriculum and operates a program for special needs and marginalized children.

Yayasan Usaha Mulia provides learning centres and libraries in low-income areas in West Java, Aceh and Central Kalimantan, and provides sponsorship and scholarships to disadvantaged students.

Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta provides scholarship for high school and university students who need to travel away from their villages to complete their education.

India

Anisha supports families living in the central train station in Bangalore with educational support for children such as pre-primary education and education sponsorship.

Centre for Culture and Development offers enrichment programmes for disadvantaged children and rural poor, especially Dalits, focussing on creative arts and health education.

Mithra Foundation focuses on the needs of Dalits, women and children, and provides preschool preparation programs in many slums in Bangalore. Mithra also operates a primary school, delivers teacher training, and runs a vocational training program. Mithra has also developed a human rights curriculum that is delivered in high schools throughout Karnataka province.

South America

Child’s Garden of Peace provides school completion scholarships and initiated a community-based, environmental and nutrition education program in southern Brazil.

Entrelazos is a child-centered project operating arts programs in Buenos Aires and Traslasierra province, Argentina.

El Refugio provides comprehensive vocational training programmes to children and adolescents in two high-risk areas of Bogotá, Colombia.

Fundación Amanecer in Armenia, Colombia provides a preschool and primary program and works with the local indigenous community.

Fundación Educativa Amor in Soacha, Colombia provides primary and secondary education for children from disadvantaged populations displaced by civil war.

Inka Samana, Ecuador, developed a community-based, indigenous Inca curriculum. It operates a remote school in the community of Saraguro. This curriculum is recognized by the national education ministry and made available to other indigenous groups for use it in their communities.

Tierraviva in Argentina provides creative arts and human rights training to incarcerated women and children. It is currently carrying out an outreach program in several provinces in the country, working with inmates and prison staff, as well as systemizing its methodology in order to be taught in university courses.

Vida Plena provides educational and other support to children living in the market area in Asunción, Paraguay. The project plans to provide ICDP training to the parents of the market children, and is currently working with a government department on a pilot project which aims to improve conditions in some of Paraguay’s children’s homes.

Europe

International Child Development Programme (ICDP) in Norway provides training programmes in early childhood psychosocial development to care-givers. This programme is delivered in eighteen different countries and is recognized by UNICEF and WHO.

Lewes New School in England provides a human-scale education and through a tailored education programme assists children to develop their unique natures.

Roda Viva is an early-education and after-school learning centre near Lisbon Portugal that assists children in the surrounding immigrant community.

School without Violence is a programme provided in collaboration with UNICEF to reduce violence in schools in Serbia.

Africa

Albadi School and Orphanage in Inkisi, D.R. Congo, operates a school and also cares for children born to parents who are victims of HIV/AIDS. Albadi provides education and vocational training to children and teenagers in a family environment where human beings have value and dignity.

GSSD Lemba Imbu is a private school on the outskirts of Kinshasa providing primary school education to children from the under-serviced community.

CSSD Inkisi in D.R. Congo provides primary and secondary school education.

Nkembo School is a primary and secondary school in Muanda, D.R. Congo, managed by a Board of parents.

‘Q’ Fund works with local community service organizations to build schools and provide education support to students in Zambia and Kenya.

North America

My Neighbourhood provides creative art classes for children in inner city schools in California.

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