Shashi Tharoor Meets IISE Graduates
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament, visited the 2010 IISE graduates
today (11th December, 2010) at the IISE campus in Vellayani.
Dr. Tharoor seemed to be enthralled with IISE’s vision and mission. Though he had planned to speak about his experience in a project related with slums in Africa, he changed his speech when he realised the magnitude of adversities each of the ambitious IISE graduates already have faced before coming to India.
Survival of and conquering adversity was the main motivation for the graduates to chose to start their own social projects. To learn how to go about this, they joined the 11 months training program at the IISE.
Dr Tharoor seemed to be happily surprised about the vision and deeds of Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg (the founders of Braille Without Borders and the IISE) and their 12 years of experience running a preparatory school and vocational training centre for theblind in Tibet. He also complimented the Eco friendly approach of design and renewable energy techniques used at the IISE such as wind mills, solar energy utilisation, bio gas systems, grey water treatment, rain water harvesting etc.
He had a look at the Mobile Blind Training centre. An inititive of Braille Without Borders and Vidya Vriksha with the goal to reach out to blind children in rural areas in order to provide them with Universal Braille Kits which will enable them to learn Braille before integration in schools.
This year 28 participants from 18 countries (like Pakistan, China, Poland, Ethiopia, Kenya,Mongolia, India etc) graduated on 13th November 2010. There are a few more seats left for 2011 and highly talented, committed potential candidates from India and Nepal can still apply online.
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