Dear friends and well-wishers of NIRMAN,
As we are all getting ready to celebrate our holidays with friends and family, I want to share with you a thought about our privilege. We have education, stability, skills—and we did not necessarily labour at providing them institutionally to ourselves, much as we labored personally. Might it be possible to share a bit of our privileges with others and make them able to also have education, stability and skills, those who labour away and are not supported institutionally?
You have all either come to NIRMAN or heard of us in some way--as artists, interns, students, conference participants, or friends. Thank you! You will be happy to know that we are working with fresh energy all the time to apply our research on education, children, families and the arts to actual children and families in India. We work hard every day to create institutional knowledge and resources, on our two campuses, in the city and the village.
The school has, over 25 years, been performing the extraordinary feat of integration of all kinds of students, from the richest to the poorest, learning together under the rubric of a “no-excuses-for-less-than-excellent-education” policy. This excellence is measured not by grades but a by a constantly-researched arts-centred, ecologically-sensitive curriculum. Our ‘success’ lies in providing children like Ankita and Faiz the resources to become lovers of learning, in the development of the arts for children, in the training of teachers in theatre, dance and reading, and in environmental and gender-sensitization work.
At this time of celebrations and new beginnings, we invite you to continue your association with NIRMAN in one of three ways.
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