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USIBEF |
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“Where primary education improves, tolerance and economic opportunity can be found.” |
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Young Kolkata girls embrace each other in the traditional post-Id manner |
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UNITED STATES-INDIA BASIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION |
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When President John F. Kennedy announced the Peace Corps, from the of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to engage young American men and women in the developing countries of Asia and Africa for two-years of development work, he had a long-term vision of building civil and democratic societies there. The United States—India Basic Education Foundation understands and agrees with those principles, but it focuses exclusively on education, and in particular, education of boys and girls at Muslim schools in India. The USIBEF’s North American Knowledge Corp is made up of two-year and four-year college graduates that are members of USIBEF and want to volunteer to teach with Muslim-run English medium schools from one to four months in India or Bangladesh. The USIBEF helps to place and support these modern, Western, liberal, higher education-trained North Americans as tools for change, and to provide instructional choices to young boys and girls from Muslim middle class families desiring a different basic education in India. Our goals are to encourage the Indian middle class to place their children in improved Muslim-run English language primary and secondary schools, and to reverse the process of radicalization and extremism in some Muslim societies and communities. Ultimately, education and economic advancement will reduce the exponential growth of religious terrorism.
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Professor Syed Iqbal Hasnain, President USIBEF Senior Fellow, Energy and Resource Institute, Delhi Office: 91.11.24682100(or)41504900 ext. 2222 FAX: 91.11.24682144(or)24682145 |
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Contact us at: usibef@gmail.com |
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Dr. Lawrence Gundersen, Treasurer USIBEF Prof. of History and Political Science, Jackson TN Phone: 1.731.421.8959 E-mail: lggundersen@hotmail.com |
