Thanks to our sponsors 275 children more are going to school; children who otherwise wouldn't have any education.
We are motivated by an old Chinese proverb: "Give a man a fish and he can eat, give him a fishing pole and he can eat his whole life."
Unbelievable!
It's possible: children who never visit a school
Margriet and Rutger, founding members of the foundation, visited during their working visit in November 2013, together with schoodirector Prabhat and secretary Vidhya, two small vilages far from the main road and about 6 km from Khajuraho. In these villages, Bamnora and Beniganj live about 150 children who never have seen a school from inside.
Big wish of principal Prabhat is to bring these children to his school. There has been some discussion with the village chiefs – very important- about this matter already. Only the money is still missing.
The founder of the Kashi Mandir School mr. Prabhat Mani Mishra was born in 1974 to extreme poverty.
At the age of two he lost his father. His hobby is: serve and help other people and their children, so he decided to help the less fortunate children of today.
In april 2005 Margriet and Rutger Hoogeveen visit a school in the countryside of Madhya Pradesh, India. They are travelling in India for the second time and they get interested in the village-primary school of Kashi Mandir, in the village of Old-Khajuraho.
The first thing they see is a real third-world situation: hardly any money, children of the poorest people, a few donations from tourists and an enthusiastic and motivated team of teachers working in very bad conditions in a very bad quality building.