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Chennai, India
Nishanthe Full-Circle Learning Academy
The Nishanthe Full-Circle Learning Academy
in Chennai, India began with 15 students in a
building next to the childhood home of its namesake,
the late Nishanthe Selvakumar. The young
man died in America in 2005. His parents and
coworkers joined forces to start an educational
project in his honor to serve the children of need
in Chennai, India. The first habit-of-heart they
pursued is Respect. The project began after many
long months of determining how to fund the
project and months of reconstruction to prepare
the site that became space for the pilot project.
It took sacrificial effort on the part of family and
friends to do so. The completed academy overlooks
Nishanthe's memorial.
 Students at the school range from preschool
through elementary school. Their first areas of
focus included love, respect and sacrifice. During
the birthday of Gandhi, they connected the sacrifices
of this national hero with the habits students
could practice in their own lives and communities.
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