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Who We Are:
The Latin root of the word "educate" literally means "lead out."  The Omprakash Foundation aims to be an educational resource for the world by leading people out into a community through which diverse local needs and assets can be expressed and shared on a global scale.  As the Omprakash Foundation helps bring human and material resources to grassroots educational projects in India, Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and beyond, our donors, volunteers, and students all experience a broadening of perspective: children, adults, or somewhere in between, we all become increasingly educated as we realize our own interconnectedness.  Omprakash strives to allow a global community to support the education of its children, and at the same time, it allows the world's children to be led towards the realization of such a community.  At the very least, we hope that this website will encourage its visitors to reflect upon their roles as global citizens, and that this act-- even if largely imaginative-- will be educational in and of itself.   

Please click here to learn about projects in need of financial support, or click here to learn about projects in need of volunteers.


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*Educate * Empower* Transform

What We Do:
-By allowing our partners to represent their diverse educational projects on our website, we empower them to avoid being buried beneath the rhetoric of macro-level "development" initiatives, and at the same time we allow website visitors to learn how they can support these projects.
-By providing people with informational and financial resources, we empower them to volunteer and build relationships with different grassroots educational projects around the world.
-When volunteers return home, we empower them to continue fundraising and working to support their host organization and community.
-By providing grassroots organizations around the world with needed human and material resources, we empower them with the ability to carry out their own educational missions more effectively.
-By building relationships and promoting dialogue across cultures and borders, we empower everyone involved to consciously participate in processes of social transformation. 

Please click here to learn about all of the ways you can participate in our network.