RVPCO and DISHA recently came together to present Lecture in Human Rights Education. This lecture focused on Human Rights Education for Kids in India. Our Volunteer, Jyoti Singh, personally visited several schools in Chennai in February and talked to kids who's lives were effected a great deal with these Human Rights education camps.
Date: Friday, September 24th, 2010
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: Russell Hall 305, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Title: ' Schooling for Rights: Story of an Indian Experiment'
Speaker: Dr Vasanthi Devi
Chairperson of IHRE and also the President of EurekaChild (AID)
Well known Educationist and Academician. Former Vice-Chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. Former Chairperson of the Tamilnadu State Women’s Commission. Former State Planning Commission Member. Member of the National Curriculum Framework. Member of several Govt and NGO Committees on Education and Human Rights.
Her bio (
http://www.eurekachild.org/profiles.php#vasanthi)
Our thanks to Sharad Sundararajan and Jyoti Singh for putting it all together. Dr. Monisha Bajaj and Radhika Iyengar for having reserved the place and getting Columbia students for the presentation. Lecture was attended by 40 people.
Donors
Shreya Amin
Mamta Naidu
Sharad Sundararajan
Sumeet Verma