Their visit was marked by intensive activity, during several interactive sessions within DIPIN’s holistic development programme.EducarUno’s mission statement echoes DIPIN’s vision, in that it seeks not only to engage and encourage the community towards self-empowerment but also to generate discernible change and tangible development outcomes. We help people to help themselves.

Alfonso and Yael observed each of our five primary schools in action and mingled freely with our students and staff.

Impressed with our dedicated computer room, despite the remoteness of our location, Alfonso presented us with an exciting new IT solutions package called NComputing, which drastically reduces the cost of computing by allowing multiple users to simultaneously share a single computer!

Alfonso and Yael visited our women’s empowerment workshop and admired the products of our village women’s intensive effort and the fruits of their labour of love. Walking through our extensive, organic fruit and vegetable plot, they shared our pride and joy at the result of successfully implemented bio-farming techniques we have deployed for our communities. Stopping to interact with our farmers, Yael and Alfonso held a wide-ranging dialogue on global farming techniques with them.

Finally, when they observed our medical personnel in action, both Yael and Alfonso appreciated the human-centric and progressive character of DIPIN’s integrated development model, which they felt was at par with the best programmes in the world.

In correspondence exchanged later, Yael and Alfonso took the trouble to convey the excitement and inspiration their visit had evoked. They were impressed by our unique community development model because it focuses not only on education, but on holistic empowerment.

Clearly, they too gained useful learning through their exposure to Dipin Foundation’s work in rural India and, delighted by the extent and quality of philanthropic activity they observed in India, they expressed particular admiration for DIPIN’s founders.