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Educare is catching on
globally
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council
has given the A++ rating to the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher
Learning and, the UGC has acknowledged it as a centre of excellence.
But what is exciting is its concept of `Sathya Sai Educare', which
has caught on globally.
The Japanese were the first to translate into all
international languages, the Education in Human Values EHV modules.
But global Sathya Sai Educare, really began when Dr
Art Ong Jumsai, an ex-NASA scientist and Dr Victor Kanu, a former
diplomat, started Institutes of Sathya Sai Education besides Sathya
Sai Schools, in Thailand and Africa, to train teachers in EHV, i.e.,
educare. The EHV teacher leads by example, like the drill master. So
the training aims at helping the teachers integrate into their
lives, the concepts of righteous conduct and love.
Ego reduction was the name of the game. Institutes
of Sathya Sai Education (ISSE ) exist in all continents. Some
universities, such as the Bezerra de Menezes Varsity in Brazil have
incorporated EHV in their framework.
In San Salvador, a slum kid of the Bal Vikas
programme turned a doctor, and today works to serve the
disadvantaged. In Africa, where water wars are common, the African
Institute of Sathya Sai Education (TAISSE) has incorporated Educare
into a water education programme.
So successful has TAISSE's Water for African Cities
(WAC) project been in six countries that UN HABITAT in collaboration
with TAISSE is extending the programme to more African nations as a
comprehensive human values-based education on water, sanitation and
hygiene.
The concept also facilitates inter-religious and
ethnic harmony across countries such as Indonesia, Kenya, Thailand,
even China, Australia and Sri Lanka, though Chinese educationists
play down the spiritual aspect; the emphasis is on values.
In the UK, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme has
signed the operating licence agreement with the Sai organization.
The movement's youth of UK are to be advisors for
the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award
Scheme in 2006.
Another success story is that of Sathya Sai U-Turn
training schools where 'at risk' adolescents are reclaimed through
educare.
In Australia, Malayasia, Thailand, Kenya, Nigeria,
Zambia and several Latin American countries this program is proving
exceedingly popular.
DR HIRAMALINI SESHADRI & DR SESHADRI HARIHAR
(The authors, practising medical
professionals, can be reached at hiramalini@yahoo.com)
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