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New Volunteer Grant Recipient Anoop Jain Departs for India to serve LHA!July 13, 2010 Anoop Jain of Evanston, Illinois departed for northern India today to serve Omprakash partner LHA and work with Tibetan refugees in the region. In preparation for his trip, Anoop raised over $25,000 to help build a community kitchen for the residents of Mcleod Ganj! We wish him a safe and successful journey and look forward to reading his stories and resources in the future. Be well Anoop! |
Two Volunteer Grant Recipients Depart for El Salvador!July 12, 2010 Two of our recent volunteer grant recipients departed today for El Salvador to serve our new partner, the Hilda Rothschild Foundation. Emma Fullinwider and Sofia Weir of Dallas, Texas are rising high school seniors with a passion for Montessori education. Before their trip, they collected over $5000 worth of educational materials from Dallas area Montessori schools! They have plans to start a pen pal program and upload Montessori-focused Classroom Resources to our site. Stay tuned for stories, photos, and video! |
How to post images on your profile or in a story!June 28, 2010 Thanks for using our site! Here is a video demonstrating how Partners or Volunteers can add images to a story or profile after logging in to our site.
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How to use our website!June 20, 2010 This video is meant to help Omprakash Partners learn how to use our website more effectively. Check it out!
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LEAP Schools, Teach with Africa, and OmprakashJune 19, 2010 18 JuneThrough this blog, I invite you to join me on a two-month journey to learn about education in South Africa, particularly in Cape Town. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be living and working in Cape Town at the LEAP Science and Maths Schools. I have come to this endeavor through the U.S.-based non-profit Teach with Africa (an official Classroom Collaborator), which seeks to bring educators in America to South Africa to form professional collaborations with those at the... |
Check Out Diverse Classroom Resources!April 04, 2010 In an effort to share knowledge and direct dialog among Partners, Volunteers, and Classrooms, Omprakash presents a space in which users can upload materials that can enrich learning and understanding. Visit our Classroom Resources page to see news stories posted by our Partners, a news and entertainment magazine produced by a Kenyan girls' school, comprehensive research conducted by Classroom Collaborators on issues ranging from women's empowerment to best portable power devices. We invite users to upload and share their own perspectives, educational materials, and images and videos. |
AFCECO Featured on NBC Nightly NewsMarch 29, 2010 In October 2009, Brian Williams, the host of NBC Nightly News, followed a tip from a U.S. Afghanistan veteran and found his way to Mehan Orphanage, a home for girls in Kabul. Williams featured Mehan's founder and the orphanage in the program's series "People Making a Difference." See here for the story: On the same day that Williams was interviewing the children at Mehan, Volunteer-Grant recipient Ian Pounds was introducing those same girls by name, telling about each one's unique personality, to the student body and faculty at Pacific Ridge... |
India Book Distribution 2008March 13, 2010 During June, July, and August of 2008, we organized and participated in the distribution of over 200,000 children’s books to different schools and libraries throughout India. The idea for this project was born during the previous summer, when conversations with many of our partners in India revealed a consistent desire to obtain high quality fiction and non-fiction books to supplement the official English-language curriculum. In autumn 2007, we discovered ... |