Isha Foundation is strongly committed to child rights advocacy and rural youth development, and directly translates its mandate into concrete actions that improve the well-being of disadvantaged children and youth in rural areas.
Education:
The Isha Vidhya rural education outreach programme was launched in June 2006 with the aim of establishing over 200 Isha Vidhya English Matriculation Schools, one in each Taluk of Tamil Nadu.
One of the fundamental tenets of Isha Foundation's social outreach programs is to create more balanced gender and social equity for rural women. To this end, structured measures to enable socio-economic empowerment, build awareness and enhance self-esteem are systematically implemented at all levels of the programs.
Until one realizes their unbounded connection with creation, every person is in a prison of their own making. Waiting to break out. Wanting to be free.
Over the past few years, globalization and market liberalization have triggered significant economic development in India.
With over 5,000 years of rich history, four major religions, 17 major languages and 2,200 dialects, India's heritage, diversity, vibrant culture and growing economy are just cause for pride.
For the last few decades forest cover in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has been relentlessly decreasing. The combined effect of intensive farming methods, industrial growth and the use of trees to meet the fuel and housing needs of a growing population, has reduced the forest cover to just 17%. In response to its own research the Indian national government recommends that forest cover of 33% should be restored in order to maintain the water table and a healthy agricultural ecology.
