Six Narsimpalli students are helping eradicate polio. As part of India’s Pulse Polio program, health workers are administering the vaccine to children under 5. Such vaccinations have greatly improved the lives of children in India: last year, the country reported only one case of wild poliovirus, compared to 150,000 cases in 1985. From February to [...]
Archive for the ‘Programs’ Category
11 Jan
Winning gold
VAPV Junior College student Sunkari Lavanya has won three gold medals for archery during a competition in Maharastra. Lavanya was trained by coach Prabirdas when she was in 10th class in Kareemnagar. Coach Prabirdas has since joined VAPV and Lavanya was admitted to the junior college this year. She is currently studying MPC 1 EM [...]
23 Dec
A second chance
When he was a student at Andhra Pradesh Tribal Welfare School Dhammapet in Khammam district, Laxman played kho kho well enough to compete at the state level several times. But Laxman, who is poor, left school after 9th class and instead trained to graft plants to earn income. Still, he visited Kalleda early each morning [...]
3 Nov
A rising star
Meet Rekah Nampalli, a rising star at Matendla school. Rekah is top of her 8th Class. In addition to studying, she has found time for numerous activities that show she is taking full advantage of her RDF education. Rekah has worked on the farm, the photo blog and the Youth Empowerment Program. Her drawings led [...]
7 Feb
RDF Junior College: Archery Stars
Archery is not a sport you associate with rural India but thanks to the fame of a former RDF archery student who made it to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it has become firmly established in the remote rural village of Kalleda. It is being kept alive thanks largely to the passion of JC archery coach, [...]
1 Feb
RDF Matendla School: Buy a Recipe!
Johanna and Gudrun are two volunteers from Iceland who were the first to introduce the Youth Empowerment Program to RDF Matendla school. Here’s a post written by Johanna on a special project they worked on in addition to their Youth Empowerment class – the Buy a Recipe project! Those who have been to RDF Matendla [...]
30 Jan
Republic Day celebrations
Recently, all RDF schools celebrated India’s national holiday Republic Day, a day that commemorates the anniversary of India’s constitution coming into effect as the governing document of India on January 26, 1950. For the joyous occasion, celebrations take the form of Games Days across schools all over the nation. At RDF, games played include Kho [...]
