Education, Bangalore (South)

Ex-convict now runs home for prisoners' kids
Having gone though the stigma of incarceration, he wanted to make sure children of other prisoners did not suffer.

Contact Reny George:
Prison Fellowship India,
Dodda Gubbi Post,
Bangalore 562149,
Karnataka
Email: teenareny@vsnl.net, pfibangalore@bsnl.in
Mobile: 9448314323

Education, Patna (East)

2 Patna men make poor IIT students' dream a reality
Super 30, a coaching centre set up by Abhay Anand and Anand Kumar, trains poor kids for the IIT-JEE. This year, 28 of them made it to the JEE!

Contact Abhayanand & Anand Kumar:
"Ramanujan Society of Mathematics"
Road No. 10,
Patel Nagar,
Patna: 800023,
Bihar
Email: anandkumar@teacher.com
Mobile: 098350 25387 (Anand Kumar), 09431602303 (Abhayanand)

Education, Ladakh (North)

Meet Ladakh's man of hope
By introducing educational reforms in government-run schools, Sonam Wangchuk is encouraging communities to reinforce the cultural identity of minority ethnic groups that live along the northern border of India.

Contact Sonam Wangchuk:
Students’ Educational
and Cultural
Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL)"
Email: wangchuk@secmol.org
Mobile: 9452458999 / 9469045181

Education, Shirur, Maharashtra. (West)

Gift of a bike ups literacy levels in Maharashtra village
Armene Modi set up a foundation that provides bicycles to girls in a village where the school is a distance away. This has resulted in more than 450 girls getting an education.

Contact Armene Modi:
"Ashta No Kai - India"
Solitaire, 4 Samadi Road,
Off Nagar Road, Pune 411006,
Maharashtra
Email: ankindia@vsnl.com
Mobile: 9823079686