THE VISION

Sangam School is the vision of Kamla Sawhney, a mathematics education specialist with experience of teaching in London and India. She was determined to bring quality education to an educationally deprived sector in a rapidly changing rural area. The Foundation was registered in 1982. In 1985, after much negotiation, the villagers of Indri granted 10 acres of land for the project. The school began in 1987 and, while the first classrooms were being built, the first pupils were taught in the community hall. Sue Gilbert, a student from Warwick University helped set up the classes.

Principal: Kamla Sawhney

Kamla Sawhney has described her aim as '... an attempt at making 'Equality in Education' a reality in a society riddled with inherent and obvious divisions and disparities on the grounds of religion, class/caste, urban/rural or financial status... such factors are causing an unhealthy environment for the development of an individual and as a result a majority of our children from poor and backward classes and rural areas receive hardly any education worth the name.'