Project: Experiential-Based Learning in partnership with Swaraj University
Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan
Category: Education and Income Generation
The Swaraj University program is designed to enable individuals to become self-designed learners, social change-makers and whole, happy, and healthy beings. IDS has supported Swaraj University by providing yearly scholarships for 15 youth leaders; facilitator training programs; and newsletter, program, and website development. Some of the university’s projects that involve Swaraj students have included:
- Workshops on eco-architecture, basic mud construction, and fuel-efficient natural stoves; rooftop gardening workshops with urban families
- Creation of a Corruption Helpline project
- Design, production, and sales of eco-friendly bags made from discarded clothing from textile industries.
- Theater for nontraditional learners
Students at Swaraj University are called “seekers,” or khojis. Below is a small sampling of the various fields explored by khojis:
- Art
- Astronomy
- Ayurveda
- Community Radio
- Cooking
- Co-operative Games
- Dance Therapy
- Film Making
- Folklore
- Healing
- Journalism
- Law
- Mathematics
- Meditation
- Naturopathy
- Organic Farming
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Physics
- Politics
- Pottery
- Psychology
- Sexuality
- Social Media
- Solar Energy
- Space Designing
- Spirituality
- Theatre
- Traveling
- Veterinary Care
- Weather Science
- Web Designing
- Working with Rescued Animals
- Writing
–2013 IDS annual report