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Londoner Raises Cash for Indian Orphans »

Smriti Jhnigan has always wanted to make a difference with children in India, her native country, and when she took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program in London she created a project to raise money to improve the quality of life for children at two orphanages. Her project caught the attention of Echo, a South Essex […]

Seattle Photographer Leads Media Based Social Awareness Tours Overseas »

Amanda Koster is both an acclaimed Seattle photographer and a graduate of the Landmark Forum. She has long used her skills to spotlight compelling issues around the world and the valuable work being to done to make a difference with them. She has gotten many requests to turn these trips into tours that bring other people into […]

Landmark Education Graduate Creates New Economic Opportunities for Rural Villagers in Karnataka »

G.V. Bhat lives in Sirsi, India, a small town with a problem common to rural India: no jobs, or more accurately, no middle class white collar jobs. This problem causes educated youth to leave the villages they grew up in as soon as they are of working age, overpopulating the cities and emptying rural communities. Bhat took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression […]

Landmark Education Graduate Project Provides Hope for Burn Victims »

Imagine burns covering 75% of your body. Curled up at home, away from the light, curtains drawn. You are ashamed of your own reflection, spurned by family and in agony from huge lesions that cover you. That is how scores of forgotten burns victims while away their days. Most of them could easily have died […]

SELP Project in India Helps Raise awareness about Learning Disabilities »

In a country with over a billion people educating children is a challenge.  In spite of that challenge, Indian culture has very high expectations of their children when it comes to education.   It a competative environment that leaves most students tense and anxious at exam time.  
When children with learning disabilities can’t keep up it can be agonizing […]

Residents of a Bangalore apartment complex are inspired to aid street children via an SELP Community Project »

Project Aarogya: Health, Hope and Happiness

Project Aarogya is an initiative started by some of the residents of Ranka Court Apartments, Cambridge Layout, to provide medical attention to street children in Bangalore. The core team consists of five members:- Asmita Rajiv, Geetha Prem, Ritu Jain, Savita Singh and Nondini Das. Coming from different backgrounds, these ladies, […]

Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Project in New Dehli gives mothers a chance to share and learn from each other »

When Renu Sharma created a community project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program, she wanted to provide an opportunity for mothers to share their experiences and learn from each other.
Here is a story from the East Dehli Plus.
Look at the world from the children’s point of view
’The most connected parent’ quiz will be held on […]

Spandana: An SELP project created to help underprivilidged children in Bangalore »

When Vinay Nagaraju’s participated in the Self-Expression and Leadership program in 2001 he created project called ‘Spandana’. It is an NGO that works with under privileged children in Bangalore. Since it began in 2001, Spandana has gotten major global corporations such as Honeywell to donate to it’s causes, including first aid kits for schools, library […]