05/11/2017
Hello everyone! Ramji Raghavan is visiting LKYSPP on the 23rd of November!
He is the founder and Chairman of Agastya International Foundation, the world’s largest hands-on mobile science education program for economically disadvantaged children and rural teachers. Ramji Raghavan left a successful career in banking in London in 1998, to create Agastya International Foundation, a transformative and innovative education charity in India. As Chairman of Agastya, Ramji leads a grassroots initiative to support and transform primary and secondary education in India. Operating with a fleet of 175 mobile labs, 60 science centres, 60 lab-on-motorbikes, 400 night village schools and a 172-acre campus Creativity Lab near Bangalore, Agastya has reached creative hands-on science education to 10 million poor and disadvantaged children and 250,000 teachers.
He is planning to visit LKY School on the 23rd of November. If you are interested in learning about best ways to educate underprivileged children, this will be an opportunity to learn from the man himself. Do let me or Saipriya know about it, so we can work on organizing a conversation with him.
More about Agastya International Foundation:
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