His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar has since the last 34 years been working on his vision to provide
world-class holistic education opportunities that facilitate cognitive,
physical, emotional, social, and spiritual growth.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has
founded a vast range of educational programs and institutions all over India,
providing first class education to those living in urban cities as well as free
education to the illiterate masses in rural India.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's education-basedinitiatives were for children of marginalized communities who would otherwise
be child laborers.
The Art
of Living works to
provide both quality education as well as health care to students and parents.
Students and parents regularly attend stress-relief workshops.
Students are provided free
stationary, uniforms, and mid-day meals. The first rural school, SSRVM (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Vidya Mandir) started in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, is located just outside
Art of Living Bangalore Ashram.
This 30 student school now
provides value-based education to over 2,400 children from 45 surrounding
villages.
At
present 422 free schools are functioning in tribal India, benefitting 43,886
children.
Nearly 95 percent of
students in the schools are first-generation
literates.
