We are excited to share this recent video clip about ChangeEducate and the Pepsi Refresh competition. It was seen on ABC News (watch ChangeEducate on ABC).

Thank you for your continued support! We would be grateful for any help with ChangeEducate, so please consider making a tax-exempt donation today. If you are a teacher who wants to get involved, or if you would like your school to pilot the project, please contact us.

At the end of April 2010, Discover Worlds won a $25K grant from the Pepsi Refresh competition. This has been possible not only thanks to PepsiCo’s generosity, but because of your support. We are grateful for all the votes keeping our project within the top ten for a month! This grant will be a great help for the ChangeEducate project.

Please send any media requests to <contact@discoverworlds.org>.

Thanks again.

ChangeEducate is an award contest that features student social entrepreneurs on a DVD that will be distributed internationally through the classroom setting to motivate students to get involved.

Here is the application, if you would like to participate! Alternatively, you may share this link. Read more

Blogs is one of the first information services we launched for members and chapters of Discover Worlds. It has been through three updates and is running smoothly. Just this morning we added a blog for the Duke chapter of Discover Worlds. It’s under construction, but it will be worth visiting when it’s complete. Meanwhile, the Umubano Sister School Program still hosts its blog here, using it mainly to publish online newsletters. Since Blogs has been successful, we may be adding a wiki service in the future.

As our need for communication grows, we are also exploring the possibility of integrating services such as Twitter and perhaps even opening a discussion forum.

Discover Worlds Kolkata has recently updated us on their activities, and it is amazing what they are doing in their community. Maddy writes,

There’s this place called Hazra where 8 families live on the streets: literally having just a shack to sleep in at night… the area is just 10 minutes from our school and my house. We used to walk past them every time, treating them as part of the street… then we realized how much we needed them… there are 7-8 kids over there but the most amazing part is that their mothers are interested in learning the alphabets as well! We are now taking care about their education and hygiene… [we have] discovered our extended family!

Ria will be writing a more detailed article, so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, here are some photographs of the Hazra folk.
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