Story of Sattva
How it all started
The person at the center of the action is Meenakshi who has been part of multiple programs at micro and macro level and put all her experience into creating Sattva learning center. Across two decades , have observed some children unable to align with mainstream education and getting demotivated, and that the stress was passing on to parents and therefore to the society. The strong urge to work with such children, ended a long lucrative stint at a PSU. Thereafter, began the process of educating self to educate the children, The quest for learning and the pursuit for knowledge is still on !
- Volunteer at Little Flower convent for the Blind and Deaf at Chennai in the 90s.
- House mother for a group of 11 children of Hyderabad Children’s trust for over 3 years around 98-2000.
- Key person in the setting up and development of VGCET(vikasini Girl Child Educational Trust)
Advisory Board
Dr. Suresh Kumar
Associate professor for Public Health Foundation of India with qualifications and academic research expertise in the areas of Occupational therapy, Public Health disability - (Health systems and Policy) and Epidemiology.
Author of the Cochrane Collaboration, International practitioner member of the Faculty of Public Health UK.
Sumana Sinha
NILD (USA) Educational Therapist with over 17 years of experience in teaching students with various Learning Difficulties. Trained on Waldorf teaching methodology of Rudolf Steiner
Nirupama
With an experience of close to two decades in areas of mass communication and journalism there are several forums on which she has participated and made effective contributions. Worked on several documentaries, films and actively participated in rendering guest lectures on communications and media studies pan India and across the globe.
Having travelled to over 80 countries the experience she has gained is more practical and drawn from people we meet in our daily lives.