Samanta Education

Samanta is a global transformative education initiative endorsed by the UN Human Rights Office for early years social and emotional learning for ages 3 to 6. The program meets 10 of the 17 UN Global Sustainable Development goals. The program aims to end the discriminatory mindset and the cycle of violence across our world and ensure positive life outcomes for children, by creating a strong foundation for individual and societal progress, making communities safer, healthier, more equal and just. The Country director of Samanta is Manjushree Patil, TEDx Speaker & founder of Aatman Academy. Sonal Sachdev Patel CEO of GMSP Foundation is a patron, and Actress Amy Jackson is an ambassador on the programme.
Samanta Education provides young people with a grounding in equality, empathy, peaceful conflict resolution, critical thinking, problem-solving, gender equality, emotional literacy, self-regulation, self-esteem, inclusion, environmental protection, a celebration of differences, collaboration among others. Governments, policymakers and school networks adopt, and mandate, this programme as a new subject from the age of 3. Samanta currently reaches 5000 students in 130 classrooms across 6 states in India ( with a presence in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh).
Dr Craig Bailey from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence has evaluated the programme.

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