THE SCHOOL INSIDE is just about to wrap up its eighth year of serving children, young people, and adults around the world with curtailed educational opportunities as a result of relocation, war, or social pressures and stigmas. We also reach out to students in conventional school settings wanting the opportunity to improve their English. Our work began with Syrian refugee children at the Bayti children’s home in Turkey. (Our work there is now temporarily discontinued as the orphanage was closed, we were told, by the government). We currently work with students in several regions of Afghanistan, with villagers in Nepal affiliated with the Himanchal Education Foundation, with village families in the Akshara educational program in the Pune region of India, and with students in Mutave, Kenya attending Noah's Ark Academy. This work is in addition to individual students we work with in 7 other countries including Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Kurdistan, and refugees in the U.S. At times we have had over 300 students and, at other times, as few as 50. Circumstances beyond our control often cut short our ability to reach students in need — but we never stop trying.     



 
BAYTI was opened in August 2014 by a brave young man named Yakzan Shishakly. Please find below 2 links to stories about Bayti as well as a video:

 
The Christian Science Monitor
The Huffington Post
Bayti video 
The School Inside blog site for Bayti
 

 ASK: AFGHAN SCHOOL KHAANAA. Our Afghan Home School program currently works with individual students in several provinces of Afghanistan. 
The School Inside blog site for Afghanistan
 

HIMANCHAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION is a story that begins with one of the most courageous, persistent and humble men of our times—Mahabir Pun. The story is best told in the video below, “Hiking for e-mails”. Also, please find a link to their website as well as to a Wikipedia page about Mahabir Pun.
Hiking for E-mails
Himanchal
Mahabir Pun
The School Inside blog site for Nepal
 

AKSHARA is a remarkable program started by an even more remarkable woman, Dr. Harsha Joshi. Since 2005, Akshara has worked to empower the most marginalized, lower caste rural youth (particularly girls) in Maharashtra (the western, central region of India). It provides daily educational support toward the end of achieving equality and independence. Akshara serves more than 500 students in 7 villages from elementary students to pre-university/college-level students, and Adivasi and tribal adults. In addition to education support, Akshara also helps participants secure their first job once they graduate. 
Akshara
Akshara's students aid amazing plastic initiative 
The School Inside blog for Akshara 
 

NOAH'S ARK ACADEMY is clearly one of the most dedicated and tireless institutes of learning we have ever worked with.  Started in 2009 by Bwana Churchill Butalia, this school in Mutave Kenya was initially founded to help children orphaned by the tragic HIV/AIDS epidemic that swept through much of Africa. Their work, however, also includes providing local communities with the skills and equipment needed to solve the problems that have kept people so long impoverished.  The goal is self-reliance and long term well-being, including programs to restore local ecosystems.
Noah's Ark Academy
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