“For just a $1 a day or the cost of the cup of coffee you can adopt an entire school and bring literacy to the rural villages in India” says Ram Nehra, the New England coordinator of the Ekal Vidyalaya movement. Sangeet Sandya is a fundraiser program planned on Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 6:00 pm at the Keefe Technical High School auditorium in Framingham, MA by the Ekal Vidyalaya foundation.

The Ekal Vidyalaya movement aims to help eradicate illiteracy from rural and tribal India by 2010. To date, Ekal Vidyalaya is a movement of over 9,000 teachers, 2,000 voluntary workers, 10 field organizations (scattered in 16 Indian states), and 7 support agencies. With this tremendous human force, the Ekal Vidyalaya movement strives to create a network of non-formal schools that will educate and empower children in rural and tribal India.

The Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation is a charitable trust that initiates, supports, and runs non-formal one-teacher schools (popularly known as Ekal Vidyalayas) all over the country. With the participation of numerous non-profit trusts and organizations, this program has now become the greatest non-governmental education movement in the country.

“Sangeet Sandya” features an evening of Ghazals and Bhajans by leading artists Sushil Baweja (singer for the Ramayan TV Serial) and Ashok Pandey, senior Tabla artist who is regularly featured on Indian television networks. Both artists have won major awards in India and have been highly acclaimed for their excellence.

The evening will also include a presentation by students of Jasmine Shah from the Angikam Dance Academy. Titled, “Namosthuthe” it includes a dazzling array of folk and classical dances by senior students of the academy.

“We are very excited about the event “ says Shri Ram Nehra who is the coordinator for the event. in New England. “ There is great entertainment and you will be supporting a noble cause”

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