Curriculum used in our
Coaching Centers for Poor Children

 


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In each adopted village, our specially trained local instructors provide two hours daily of physical, moral, intellectual and spiritual education to the village children (age 5-12), using the following curriculum:

   - Rules of personal hygiene
   - Personal moral observances (yamas)
   - Social moral observances (niyamas)
   - Prayers and om chanting
   - Singing devotional songs (kirtan)
   - Performing a simple, non-sectarian religious worship (puja)
   - Yoga postures (asanas)
   - Breathing exercises (pranayama)
   - Concentration exercises (dharana)
   - Simple meditation technique (dhyana)
   - Sanskrit language
   - English language
   - Good handwriting skills
   - Good reading skills
   - Good oral presentation skills
   - Debating tournaments
   - Group reading of the Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Holy Bible, Dhammapada and Qu'ran
   - Sanskrit-only Day
   - English-only Day
   - Play acting of religious stories and epics from various religions
   - Village theater to dramatize the social ills of the community (i.e. the dowry system, caste discrimination, alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, domestic violence, laziness, unhygienic lifestyle, greed, etc.)
   - Service to the poor, the sick, orphans, widows, and the handicapped of their own community
   - How to help and educate one's own parents to live a life free from alcohol, smoking and intoxicants

   

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