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  1. Revolutionizing Education, VVMVP Rural School

    Background Ved Vignan Maha Vidhya Peeth (VVMPV) was the first rural school started by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in 1981. It started when Gurudev observed some local children playing in the dust near The Art of Living center. When he saw that they had n ...
  2. School for Disaster Victims, Nagapattinam

    Background The Art of Living team put immediate relief measures in place after the tsunami in Nagapattinam, the team helped to re-build the communities by building homes, primary and secondary schools and an industrial center. These long term measures hav ...
  3. School starts in Dharavi

    Background Sri Sri Vidya Mandir is the first English medium school in Asia and rsquo;s largest slum. Today the school has six rooms and classes up to 6th standard. Despite numerous challenges, such as the children and rsquo;s difficult backgrounds, unavai ...
  4. Education Testimonial23

    SSVM was an eye opener for me. First year, there were only four students from Poombukar. After sending them to that school I found a profound change in the behavior of my children. Even I learnt discipline from them and I am very happy to see that. Discip ...
  5. Education Testimonial22

    I am studying in 4th standard. My father’s name is Muthukumar and mother’s name is Manimeghalai. My father has a tea stall and my mother is a house wife. My favorite subject is mathematics. I am the class first rank holder. I like this school very much an ...
  6. Education Testimonial21

    It has been just four days since I joined this school. I never knew about SSVM before but I used to see school buses going. I thought that if education is free then the parents who can relatively afford a paid school would not send their children here, bu ...
  7. Education Testimonial20

    When the school started we had less than 200 students. The following year the number increased to 300 and this year it’s 500. The school is growing and improving at a tremendous pace. Many students are coming from as far as Poombuhar because of the qualit ...
  8. Education Testimonial19

    I have been teaching here for the past one and a half years. I teach mathematics from standard 5 to standard 8. When the students came here to study, they didn’t even know the basics of addition or subtraction. They were not well disciplined or well manne ...