Programs
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As materials have to be hand-carried to Zimbabwe, financial donations are requested:
The Nhimbe Magaya Preschool is a project inspired by Karen
Madsen-Barton. It began through a connection to the world of Zimbabwean
music, in particular Dumisani Maraire who brought Shona music to the west
coast of North America. After he passed on, Jaiaen Beck of Ancient Ways
traveled to Zimbabwe and with the village headman, Cosmos Magaya, began
a development and sustainability project to serve 7 villages in a rural
community. Karen asked if they had any interest in a school for their
3 to 6 year olds and the answer was a resounding YES. In 2001 the parents of the Oregon Sundborn Children's House
under the guidance of Karen, the Director, funded the construction of
a school building in Mhondoro. For these villages, it is the first indigenous
preschool and enjoys widespread community support.
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Immediate Needs: The Foundation opened “Casa Montessori” in an orphanage where
individualized education addressing each child’s potential was much
needed. The initial target group was children from the orphanage
“Sfantul Vasile”. The program proved to be very successful....
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Nhimbe Magaya Preschool
Location: Magaya, Zimbabwe
Website: www.sundborn.org/nhimbe.htm
Program Established: 2001 # of Children: 80 Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Karen Madsen-Barton
Contact Information: NhimbeSchool@sundborn.org
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The House of Flowers
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Website: www.mepoonline.org
Program Established: 2002 # of Children: 28 Ages Served: 6-13
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Allison Lide
Contact Information: mepo_hope@yahoo.com
The House of Flowers is a Montessori-based orphanage and school, a small oasis in the rough and often child-unfriendly environment of Afghanistan. It was founded by a small non-profit organization, MEPO, (Medical, Educational and Peace Organization) in 2002. Its founders, Allison Lide and Mostafa Vaziri, knew that children coming from such decimating backgrounds were most needful of the soul-strengthening effects of a Montessori environment.....
TCV: Tibetan Children's Villages
Location: Dharamsala, India
Website: www.michaelolaf.net/motcvproject.html
Program Established: 1960 # of Children: 300 Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Susan Stephenson
Contact Information: www.michaelolaf.net/motcvproject.html
From its humble beginning forty five years ago, Tibetan Children's Village has today become a thriving, integrated educational community for destitute Tibetan children in exile, as well as for hundreds of those escaping from Tibet in recent years. TCV schools have adopted the Montessori teaching of methodology which emphasizes the inner development of children...
Asha Mahatma Gandhi-Montessori
Project
Location: Sevagram,
India
Website:
Program Established: June 2006
# of Children: 35
Ages Served: 2.6-4
Contact Person: Grace Musumeci
Contact Information: grace_sevagram@yahoo.co.in
The Asha Mahatma Gandhi Project was started in June 2006 to
serve the poorest young children in rural areas of India. The
first Casa opened at the Gandhi Ashram with 20 children ages
2.6 to 3 years old. Another 20 students joined the class in 2007,
including some with severe disabilities. Grace Musumeci, who
founded this program, donates her time to guide the children
as well as to train the local women to assist in the classroom.
Her hope is to help establish Montessori Casas in rural India,
which means providing the basic materials – hopefully for
local tradesmen to use as models to make themselves, and to train
the local village women to become teachers.
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Sirjanaa Sansaar, A Montessori
School
Location: Kathmandu,
Nepal
Website:
Program Established: April 14, 2008
# of Children: 6 and growing
Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Bhola Dhital, United
States contact - Allison Lide
Contact Information: sirjanaasansaar@yahoo.com
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Throughout Kathmandu, Nepal,
Montessori schools seem to be everywhere – but
in fact they are rarely, if ever, truly Montessori. In
addition, the name “Montessori” has become
synonymous with “expensive” and these schools
are only affordable to rich families. When Bhola Dhital,
a very experienced Nepali educator, received his AMI
primary diploma from Chennai in 2007, he returned to
Kathmandu with a wish to establish a true Montessori
environment based on his training. He hopes to provide
the best education possible for the local children.
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Casa Montessori
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Website:
Newsletters: Read Newsletter1 HERE, Read Newsletter
2 HERE
Program Established: September 2000 # of Children: 15 Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Victoria Iliescu
Contact Information: viviliescu@yahoo.com
A Primary classroom called “Casa Montessori” was opened in Bucharest,
Sector 4, in September 2000, by the “Copiii Lumii – Bal Jagat Children’s
World Foundation”, a Romanian non profit organization.
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NRC Montessori Preschool
Location: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Website: www.nrccafe.org
Program Established: June 2006 # of Children: 13 Ages Served: 2-5
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Salome Fernando
Contact Information: nrcl@comcast.net
The Neighborhood Resource Center (NRC) is a grassroots,
non-profit organization located in the east end of Richmond, Virginia in a
neighborhood called Greater Fulton Hill (GFH). The center was established
to provide community members with resources that are not yet in place in
GFH. There is no preschool, no library, no adult education center, and no
healthy cafe. Truancy, poverty, gun violence, domestic violence, and
substance abuse are common obstacles found in the neighborhood. In an
effort to provide the youngest citizens of this community with a healthy
beginning, the NRC partnered with some local Montessorians to open a
Montessori preschool in June 2006. The first summer "pilot program" was an
overwhelming success! The preschool received a grant from a local source,
The Robins Foundation, to operate for the academic year and summer, Sept.
2006 - August 2007....
Otoch Paal Montessori Community Center
Location: Akumal, Q. Roo, Mexico
Website: No Website
Program Established: April 2004 # of Children: 30 Ages Served: 18 months-6 years
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Gabriela Ortega
Contact Information: otochpaal@prodigy.net.mx
Otoch Paal Montessori Community Center is a labor of love designed to educate the indigenous children from the Mayan Riviera. The specific goal is to build a non-profit school which will serve the Mayan community of Akumal, where it is common to find lonely children, who are semi-dressed, walking barefoot or playing around the town, while their parents work in the local tourist hotels. The older children cannot attend school as they must take care of their younger siblings....
Liberty Children's Home
Location: Belize, Central America
Website: www.libertyfoundation.org.uk
Program Established: July 2005
# of Children: 40
Ages Served: Birth-8
Immediate Needs:
Contact Person: Marcelle Delahaye, Founder/Director
Contact Information: mdelahaye@libertyfoundation.org.uk
Liberty Foundation believes in providing an environment in which children ‘at risk’, and those with disabilities and special needs can gain access to rehabilitation, care and the educational tools they will need to build healthy, successful lives....
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