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Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a non-profit organization located in Bangalore, India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.deccanherald.com/content/176588/destinys-child.html )〕 Parikrma addresses the growing gap in urban India between those benefitting from economic liberalization and those who are not, in which consequently only a minority of children in India can afford access to private schools where the content of education is of high quality and in the English medium. Children from slum and rural communities attend schools in the free government-run mass schooling system, where they only teach in the state language, which often proves insufficient in attaining job opportunities in a rapidly globalizing world. Parikrma believes that even the poorest children from the slums of urban India should be able to access the best opportunities in our globalized society and play a positive role in its evolution.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/Archived/Parikrma-humanity-foundation-at-AMD/962574844 )〕 The name Parikrma comes from a combination of two Sanskrit words, “pari” meaning circle, and “krma” meaning to complete. Parikrma strives to complete “The Circle of Life” by supporting children from kindergarten until they procure a job, thus ensuring that their students break out of the cycle of poverty. Now in its 11th year, Parikrma runs 4 Centres for Learning and a Junior College for 1566 children from 69 slum communities and 4 orphanages in Bangalore. Parikrma is a nondenominational nonprofit that does not discriminate on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. == History == Parikrma was founded in 2003 by Shukla Bose, who left at the peak of her career as a CEO in the hospitality industry with 26 years of experience. In order to establish Parikrma, she and her team personally visited numerous slum communities in order to understand the need and context of poverty in Bangalore, as well as to identify children who would potentially never have the opportunity to attend school, and convincing their parents that education could bring about positive change in their children’s lives. She realized that the reason that children from slum communities dropped out of school at an early age was not due to a lack of interest in education but rather due to difficult circumstances such as malnutrition, dysfunctional home environments, financial constraints, etc. The first Parikrma school began June 2, 2003 on a space rented on the rooftop of a Tamil-medium school with 165 students and 11 staff members. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parikrma Humanity Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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