The Omprakash Foundation
How to Help
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It is dangerously easy to divide the world into "us"--the
people able to help-- and "them," the poor people in need of our support and guidance. At the Omprakash Foundation,
we feel that no such divide exists: we all need help, and we all have something to give. Above all, we can help each
other learn about our world-- our problems, our solutions, our differences, and our sameness. Thus, while our website certainly
does allow visitors to find opportunities to help grassroots educational projects located outside of their home countries,
we like to think that it also does something else, something even more fundamentally educational: simply by facilitating communication
between people from different parts of the world, simply by acting as a conduit through which different ideas and different
visions of "development" can be shared, our website allows all of us to help deconstruct popular assumptions and
biases and remain open to that which we do not know. The more we appreciate difference, the more we open ourselves to the
diversity of our planet, the more humble we become. It is only through a relentless commitment to such humility that we can
obliterate the binaries of "us" and "them" and enter the expansiveness of a new "we."
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