Village Projects & Meditation

Today we visited a village to ask questions about our project to the people who lived there. My group is focusing on wet waste. The first thing we did was go to a small school that went up to fifth standard and there were 35 students and 2 teachers. We had an introduction to the […]

Pigeons on the Bus

We had an amazing start of the day with the walk session and the another thing that fascinated me was that we had pigeons on board with us on the bus. When we first went to the village, I remembered my village and the houses were really beautiful and people were welcoming. It was really […]

Visiting Operation Vasantha

Last night was an inspirational experience for me. It started off with us meeting the children, who were very excited to see us and show us the songs they’ve learned in both English and Telugu. They engaged with us even though most us didn’t understand what they were saying. They were all so beautiful and […]

Kids of Kuppam

Today was very interesting going out to the communities and seeing how many of the people live their lives and how happy the kids are. We were lucky to be able to see a very big spectrum of ages in the community and what I noticed is how happy they all were.

Lessons from our spaces

1. Looking at the picture in a different environment. Looking deeper in the picture and actually seeing the beauty inside of it no matter how it looks 2. Nature opens up the eyes of blind, opens up the ears of deaf people and and let them sense the precious world 3. Shouldn’t judge a book […]

Innovating a Pair of Pants

In this video, my group and I were currently hurrying up on our innovation since we had about what felt like two seconds left. We were able to, in that time, come up with and innovation the discard it then again come up with another that we stuck to. In this I realized it’s hard […]

A Short Video Tour of Agastya

Here’s a short video of where we’re spending the next few days at Agastya International Foundation.

Touring Agastya

Today I found the labs at Agastya inspirational by its availability toward it’s youth and prospective young minds. The labs were able to give me a chance to see the subjects of science. Overall it was a wonderful day!!!

Wrapping up Orientation

The final two days of orientation in Hyderabad got the Leadership Collective learners out into the city. On the 19th, learners first visited a skilling center run by Dr. Reddy’s Foundation where they interacted with those at the center. After a few afternoon community building sessions, the learners set out to dinners across the city of Hyderabad […]

The 2018 Leadership Collective Kicks Off!

After flying in from across the US, South Africa, Nepal and India, the 2018 Leadership Collective kicked off with our largest group of learners yet! The 33 learners spent today at orientation at Dr. Reddy’s Leadership Academy in Hyderabad. The day began with lots of ice breakers and concluded with a special speaker– Mr. Srikanth Bolla. […]