Hands-on Agastya!

It´s been a week already since we arrived to Bangalore. My #ibmcsc #india team has done a lot of progress collaborating with our partner, Agastya International Foundation, a Bangalore based NGO that seeks to transform and stimulate the thinking of economically disadvantaged children, through innovative science education in government schools. "Sparking curiosity among students, to create confident children", they said. And I was impressed. Earlier this year while I was thinking about my personal and professional objectives for 2015 I came to the conclusion that "becoming a confident grown up" was top on my list, and here I am now, supporting an NGO which mission is to transform children´s attitudes from"fear" to "confidence" through education... Not a coincidence, is it? Every single day in India seems to be a learning opportunity to me.
Our project aims to build a roadmap for a Donor Management System deployment, to support the administration of current and future donors, specially from a fund-raising perspective. Recently India´s government has approved a new regulation to enforce private sector´s commitment to local development, having companies above certain revenue level giving the 2% of their net profit to NGOs, which will definitively increase their budget, and therefore non-government organization´s activities in-country.
We were invited to an event in a the Engineer Institute in Bangalore, where we got to see a science lab (and played a little too!!). It has been amazing. I am attaching some pics below!
Coni Caorsi.