Education
The Kashi Initiative delivers high-quality educational services to children in need in India. With an emphasis on social inclusion and outreach, we provide schooling where kids can learn to communicate across differences to build sustainable futures--making India a more democratic place to live.
Kashi kids playing with a balloon on Kashi School property.
Kashi School in Varanasi, India.
The first Kashi School is being constructed in an underdeveloped and rural area across the Ganga from Varanasi's central city. This location provides Kashi School access to the most at-risk children in the district. Our central academic focus is to...
- Provide a holistic educational experience focused on the whole child.
- Nurture children in an environment of empathy, compassion, and justice.
- Promote critical thinking about complex global issues that leads to social change.
- Teach children to live in harmony with others and communicate across differences for common good.
- Foster mindfulness through reflection about how one's actions impact others, communities, and the environment.
- Encourage a spirit of ethical entrepreneurship and innovation.
In conjunction with these tasks, Kashi School will bring children together in safe, protected spaces where they can build sustainable futures.
I-SEEC Curriculum and Support System
The I-SEEC system is a school-wide, multi-tiered curriculum that focuses on social competence and academic achievement. I-SEEC uses mindfulness to teach integrity, service, equity, excellence, and connectedness. The I-SEEC curriculum forms the foundation of the Kashi Initiative's educational programming. Our curricular approach aims to #CreateHappy by...
Learning Happiness...
The Kashi Initiative believes that education should enact joy. Our educational model promotes learning happiness. We #CreateHappy through education that cultivates the soul so that we can change the world.
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be honor in the nation.
If there is honor in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
-- Chinese proverb