Bangalore city continues to advance rapidly and incorporate villages, making room for garment factories and real estate. Land speculation is rampant. Those who suffer most are, of course, the poorest. Bapagrama has become a green safe place for our students for the five years of their studies. But our constant struggle is how to prepare our students for their future livelihood: computer literacy, agriculture/horticulture, weaving, and other vocational skills. Teaching and learning in these areas has begun but all areas need quick and serious development. We have now moved the clinic to a large room in the school building, which brings its health activities closer to the students; village patients also have closer contact with the school. The roof of the sixty year old school building is in dire need of repair. We need to build a new set of latrines. We need to electrify the school building. The students at Bapagrama are not only learning intellectual and academic skills, but also inner strength and the spirit of community. The forces that attempt to debilitate our children are many and serious, but we are struggling against such forces.

In This Issue

Bapagrama Reflections by Stephen Clark

We-Learn Travel

SPARK Teacher Education Institute

Diversity Day at BUHS

Human Rights Cases against Private Military Contractors in Iraq

Putney Harvest Festival

Remembering Claire Oglesby

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