Spread over a sprawling 60 bigha of land, is our campus that was created first in the year 2000-2001. Fondly named ‘Bodh Gaon’, the campus started as a space to conduct and consolidate our expansion of interventions to rural Rajasthan. One such intervention was the establishment of a primary school by the name of ‘Manas Ganga’ within the campus, which was intended to cater to the educational needs of the girls of the rural communities of the Alwar district. The school was a residential one and was run in the campus from the year 2002-03 to 2004-05, post which it had to be shifted out of the campus, for various reasons, the difficulties in the arrangement of basic amenities and the inability to get quality yet permanent faculty for the children being chief among them. Bodh Gaon today has firmly become the base of our rural operations. Solar-powered and equipped with accommodation for around 150 people, it is the sight of our rural teacher training, educational camps for children, reflective meetings of teachers and visits by like-minded organizations, interns and students. The campus has seen training conducted for a mix of around 3000 Bodhshala teachers, government school teachers and principals and other organization’s personnel. The campus has also been a much-loved site for field visits and student camps with exposure visits having been conducted with around 2000 children so far. With its fresh air, solitude, and green, large expanses of space uninterrupted by the concrete and chaos of cities, Bodh Gaon truly is our respite from as well as our hope for our busy urban lives.
Bodh Gaon