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Prerna Means Inspiration: Girls Refuse Forced Marriages to Gain an Education
Prerna Girls School is a part of the Study Hall School in Lucknow, India. It serves the largely impoverished girl children of the surrounding slums, by providing educations to 540 girls from kindergarten through 12th grade (as of June 2010). Founded by Dr. Urvashi Sahni, herself a dynamic force of nature, Prerna is one of those places that show a good future can become a reality.
The astounding success of the Prerna Girls School program is a lesson to many others working for education, women's empowerment and solving a host of issues identified in the Millennium Development Goals as critical: health, education, poverty eradication, literacy, population pressure, environmental degradation, to name a few.
Community By Design
Lawrence New Jersey takes action to design an ecologically sustainable future for itself through a FutureSearch conference. They create a marvelous vision of a livable, productive and sustainable future, using The Natural Step principles.
See: http://sustainablelawrence.org/
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 5/8/2006 Language: English Run Time: 29 min. 48 sec. Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story
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Ideas That Bring People Together
A message of greeting and hope from renowned traveler and humanitarian Paul Osimo - also a Rotary International member and Past District Governor (PDG) heavily involved in humanitarian relief efforts to Madagascar, India, central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Produced by: Paul Osimo, 11/18/2005
Language: English
Run Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults
