Rainbow Primary School

While all is very well at the Rainbow School, I'll pause to highlight a "sister organization" supporting budget private schools in India. Gray Matters Capital and the Rockdale Foundation have an annual symposium in Hyderabad, called "Enterprising Schools." Buddies of mine from here in Palo Alto, the Hewlett Foundation and IDEO, are heading out there next week. More info is on www.enterprisingschools.com My IDEO fellas organized a whole list of very low-cost teaching aide ideas to present at the symposium. Ideas like using old newpapers to teach literacy. They put the list up on the website under "STEAL THIS IDEA" - click here for the list! (in pdf form) BEST WISHES for a successful symposium, I miss you all in Hyderabad!

The government official for the Rainbow School is the Mandal Education Officer, the MEO. He has dozens of schools, the most populated part of our district which has 1 million students total (big district!). His name is Jagan Mohan Chary. He is the most wonderful man. You can see him here, standing, in the white shirt. Other than my work with the Rainbow School, my focus is how to support public servants like Chary. But I want to do this throughout the world. There are almost 5 billion mobile phones in the world, and I hope to use SMS to reach the millions phones in the hands of public servants who seek to do good. More more on this kind of work, check out Mobile Active: http://mobileactive.org/ I miss you Chary!