Please leave us your comments at the bottom of this page.
If Eon Gyanankur parents have comments please drop a letter to the school or arrange to meet your child’s teacher or headmistress.This website is not the schools inhouse website and is primary for the trust that runs the Gyanankur school in Kesnand. Our structure in Eon Gyanankur has changed to PDEA having management, whilst Gyanankur people are still volunteering their time to give input into the school. We will call a parents meeting before the end of July.. We need to call a number of meetings as there is no place for a one time only meeting. In the meantime there are timings to meet your teacher and the headmistress on the board at the front of the school and parents are already setting up these meetings. Thanks.
Welcome everyone to our wonderful new website! Thanks to Josh for all his amazing help with the site!
Thank you for visiting Gyanankur School, please look around and enjoy your visit, and please say hi to us and leave us any suggestions of how we can improve this site! And please come visit us in Pune!
Suzana
Congratulations from Canada. I just wanted to wish you all the luck in this monumental endeavor. I can not fathom what your daily routine is like; these pictures are entirely foreign to me. It is too easy to forget that people like you exist. What an inspiration!
Hi,
Greetings from Nepal.
This is Mr.M.B.Karki from Kathmandu-Nepal running a small private School.One of my friend from U.A.E. gave me your school’s site.
I want to know more about your schoolfamily.It seems wonderful.I want to learn from your school and like to improve in my school.
Once I would like to visit your school.
Hope to see you one day.Thanks
God Bless You All !
Regards
M.B.Karki “Milan” ( Founder Principal )
Apex Boarding High School
Katunje – 8,Suryabinayak
Bhaktapur,Nepal
Hi to you all! I am so excited about this endeavor! I will be praying for these children and this school! Love from Pune!
Hello everyone! The time I spent at your school I will remember forever. I think and pray for all of you each day and your families! All my blessings!
To all you heroes who actually get your hands dirty so that the generation next of India can be clean….in mind, body and spirit. This is what Gandhi,Nehru,Phule, Radhakrishnan and Ambedkar dreamt of and spoke of. You get to do it! Now how super is that?!!!!
This is absolutely wonderful! May God move in your spirit and in your vision.
May God bless you abundantly!
Primary Education is so vital and yet neglected in India. I hope and pray that there will be more schools like Gyanankur, where children are loved, cared for and challenged.
Great website. Very informative and colorful. You guys have a great vision. Hope to visit your place again in the near future.
Hello from Delhi. I was delighted to read about your work on this website. I too am deeply interested in exploring innovations in education and would love to visit your school and learn from your experiences.
Will be sure to get in touch…
Hello from Sydney.
May God bless you in your work, and may all the children grow up in wisdom and strength.
May your vision grow daily!
with much love…
Great work. Great commitment. We pray that many would follow your example to serve, influence and see a Godly change in the society. May you all see a release of all that you need to do the work that God has called you to do.
Hello, Gyanankur people! Congratulations for your special work with the children. Can I suggest, for all, NewWordGames . com ? Educational Word Games, for all ages: 11 educational Word-Searches and Changing Charades. Thank you, very much, and my best regards! Euro Oscar
Greetings from Hawaii, USA. Thank you for serving these kids, their families, and the community. Keep your eyes fixed on God during the hard times. Bless you all!
Hi!..Gr8 work! Bless u all!…i would really love to join u all someday…
Hi from Tamworth, Australia!
This vision for holistic education and social action, in a very needy country, is a huge inspiration for me, as a teacher and MK. I hope to be involved in something similar one day. Keep up the wonderful work you are doing for these people and for the King of kings!
P.S. The website looks great – not too ‘busy’ but very informative and colourful.
Good efforts. Like to visit your school to know more about personally. God Bless you.
abraham
This is awesome and truly inspiring! Keep up the good work and know that your labour will only add to the transformation of India. It will not go in vain at all.
Thank you for your hard work.
Blessings,
Aldrin & Viky
Greetings from Thailand! The website is great and I would love to come visit, serve, and learn from you guys in the near future. I hope to be in touch! Bless you.
Hi Melinda and all the wonderful staff of the school,
I just read about you and thought I’d look you up. Thank you for your service to the Lord. I am also an Australian, in Taiwan. Melinda, thank you for your obedience to the Lord and for allowing the Lord to grow your vision. I want to learn from you in this. Thank you!
Hello from the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, USA. I am looking at pictures that tug at my innermost heartstrings. I have been a teacher my whole life and always wanted to go across the great ponds of the earth to do teaching/missionary type work…. i had a personal friendship with a holy Dutchman who was in India in the 1940′s through the 1960′s and now knowing that Julia is with you for this summer as a teacher, well,….my heart pops that she and you are so blessed…..peace to all of you.
Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it!
Hai, excited to do something for this school, but thought what can I do? then realized that I can pray for the school & for u. India need this type of schools in every village & God will honour & bless u for what u have started. Our prayers are with u.
Hi,
Greetings from PUNE
I want to know more about your schoolfamily.It seems wonderful.
Once I would like to visit your school.
where is it actually located please let me know
Hope to see you one day.Thanks
God Bless You All !
Regards
Aashu,
Reply me at Aashu_62@rediffmail.com
Hello.
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Hi their,
wow you guys are doing Amazing work saving childrens life and giving then the best education.
all the best
I will be Praying for you guys
Gulab writing for Germany
Hey Malinda
It’s great work, I am very impressed and encouraged by your determination and contineous perseverance which is commitment, hard work, patience, endurance. Gyanankur is definitely planted and watered by God as an answer to your obediance. I can see God is honoring your efforts and your passion. I am sure Gyanankur will be big and strong tree.
You should start thinking about the name when you guys grow into tree.
Many Blessings
Jitu
Jitu
It was great pleasure to talk with you on 16th Dec, 2008. I am surprised to find the web site of Gyanankur English School on google. I had not expected such good management of your school inspite of located in rural area.
Hope to see you at the time of admission of my daughter, Saloni Tanmor, 2 n half years old.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Sanskar Tanmor
Web Designer
dear melinda,
looks really good! nice site too
blessings, talk to you soon-am back in march!
gerard
Hi,
I visited your school today only. Its a very nice effort. Your classrooms are very impressive where i actually have seen the kids with high confidence level and ofcourse they are fearless.You seems to be what you have promised. This is the school where i have experienced something different that i was in search and i have finalised your school for my daughter. Thanks a lot. Wish you very all the best.
Dear Melinda
Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.
What an amazing challenge, but how worthwhile. Well done. Great to see such an informative website.
Warm regards
Jenny
Well !! to tell tye truth , nothing compares to the twinkle in a child’s eyes … these children could do with more laughter and joy that transforms thier lives ……..
lookinf forward to meeting the team . IN HIM
Nice to se ur school website and the wonderful work you are doing.May God use you much more in the days to come
Hello to the lot at Gyanankur!
It is the existence of places like yours that makes the world a beautiful place despite all the suffering that is present around us. Keep at it!
My warmest well-wishes to everyone.
I really appriciate that you have been so caring & thoughtful about the underprivilaged children and I am completely with you all..
however knowing that most children in schools are of such backgrounds, do you think that middle class or elite parents would prefer their children to be among these company.. I mean what motivation do you offer from your end to them (apart from they themselves being socially active and thoughtful like you) honestly they are just a few…
Please dont get me wrong.. my concern is mainly for parents whose children for example had studied in a higher school in different environment, why would they shift their children to this school?
Congratulations to Josh for excellent website and to those who provided helpful information on it. Well done. God bless your services.
Moses Parmar (OM)
Suzana Andrade’s article in the EFI magazine arrested my attention and led me to your website.
It is so encouraging to know that one of India’s biggest problems is being tackled so well.
May the Lord cause many to emulate your example to the blessing of this generation … and on. We will be watching and copying wherever we can in our situation in our school and Girls’ Home in Kollegal, Karnataka.
Dear Melinda,
Really great work. I am deeply moved. I would love to write about this group of schools sometime in the near future. I look forward to some case studies of orphans who are shaping brightly and looking forward to a brigher future who began schooling at one of the Gyanankur institutions. Very good work indeed.
When i saw your school at Kharadi , it is so beatiful and managed very well , the infrastrucre of newly opened scholl is at par with fully commercially run public school .It is very good initiative and will like to be part of this initiative in some way or other. Wish a great future and success to Gyanankur . Good work indeed.
Dear Rajkumar, we do need help as trying to run a high quality low cost model, do drop in and introduce yourself sometime,
Melinda Parker (Hon. Director)
Hi Team,
I get know about your work from one of my colleague who visited this place.It is absolutely amazingly conveyed with one of the best medium.The mission you have crafted is ingenious ; would definitely help india to over ride the poverty ; built much stronger,educated ,self dependend & confident nation.
Looking forward to every possible way to assist you guys………
Thanks for such a wonderful work…….
What an inspiration and challenge! The task you have undertaken, both in the actual school project, as well as the philosophical/pedagogical concepts are so vital for the maturity of the student that your work must multiply. I look forward to knowing you and someday getting to see your work in person. May your vision be shared with thousands of others.
We are following the protocol recomended by the school officials. We ask parents not to send any child with any symptom of swine flu, even our van and bus drivers check the children but each teacher checks each child at the start of the day and calls the parents if the child has any symptoms to take the child home. We have fumigated the Kharadi school and we have installed taps and water in Gyanankur kesnand having just received a timely donation from ANZBAI and so in both schools all children are supervised with washing hands with dettol soap . We have communicated to all that 15 seconds is the required time for healthy handwashing. Our aunties and bhais are wiping all areas that are touched a lot like desk tops and door handles with disinfectant each day.
All parents have been told if they are worried it is all right not to send their children and primary teachers are supplying homework to do at home. Coughing ettiquette (covering mouth when coughing is being taught to the children. Our social workers have also visited the homes of the most vulnerable who live in smaller spaces to make sure they are aware of what precautions to take. if you have any further suggestions do let us know. Thanks. Melinda
This school looks like it is doing remarkable things! Congratulations on your work and your awesome website! I can’t wait to visit the school one day.
You are such an inspiration, thank you for doing this valuable & life-changing work.
Hi my name is Ramazan RECBER I am a university student I live in adana turkey Your school very good …
http://www.google.jmin.net/
Great work! Really quality stuff that you all are doing…
hi suzana,
thanks for introducing me to the school. I am very impressed by the vision and the ideas presented on the website. I look forward to working with you on two elements; execution and financing as both are critical to making this beautiful vision come true.
“full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air” (thomas grey elegy written in a country church yard). i hope that we can ensure that as few flowers as possible blush unseen and waste their sweetness! By providing amongst other things great quality and intelligently constructed education i think we can avoid such a fate.
thanks
chris
thank
chris
Dear Sister in Christ,
It is really praise worthy to God. The efforts you are putting in. I thank God for people like You. We are praying for you and the efforts you are putting to glorify HIs Name.I want to come and visit your school . Thank you.
Hello to the lot at Gyanankur!
It is the existence of places like yours that makes the world a beautiful place despite all the suffering that is present around us. Keep at it!
My warmest well-wishes to everyone
is the kharadi school going to have same premises or new premises for its growth.As same school premises eing used by other school also.what is the planning for kharadi school upto class X or XII.
ur school has nice concept of teaching.
keep it up.
thanks
ruby
dear Ruby,
the plan is for a new building just for us across the road next to the other PDEA buildings. We have not decided about X or X!! but will soon. We do have to manage this year on the ground floor until next June. We think we can do it fairly well . Our goal is to keep a low cost but high quality model but we try to work on the essence of quality even tho we dont have a lot of space. we have great teachers and spend time investing in them as the key to our model. Thanks for your encouragement. Any constrcutive feedback or any help is welcome. I am sorry this took awhile to answer but still in the process of working out the best solution.
Melinda
Hon Director.
Thanks for these good suggestions Kegobo? can you email me with these suggestions on gyanankur@gmail.com and I can fill you in , in more detail. Also please put your full name and what class your child is in. I thought some of these things were in place but I would like to check up on them…Melinda, Hon Director.
WOW, I’m so looking forward to seeing all this personally in Sep/Oct 2010…..
I saw The School last Month ,Its very good school in kharadi area.Teacher Are also very co-operative with parents and highly responsible.Basically Kharadi local people is very sincere compare to others area and also lucky because they have lot of facility provide by local leader Mr pathare.and also i thank to school mangement to do a great work.
with best wishes
pune
This website makes me want to hop on the next plane to come and help! I would like to encourage you to push forward in faith, trusting God to provide all you need for your new school.
Hopefully I will be able to visit some day. Till then I will pray for you.
Best wishes and God’s blessings to all.
Judy
I’d like to find out more about donating books to the library
Dear Sir,
Is the school registered?
The website is awesome – praise Jesus! I am promoting your work here in Australia.
Hello,
Is this school is Govt Registered?
if my children weren’t homeschooled this is where I would want them.
Dear Melindaji
Your website is awesome! And your school looks great! The children for sure looks like having a holesome and healthy environment for learning and developing, as well as having fun too
I am really glad I got to see this webpage, the great pictures of your school, and the beautiful children of course! sweethearts, that’s what they are
. Your work is an inspiration to us 
Keep going!
lots of greetings of blessings,
wendy (on behalf of us all)
Dear Madam,
My kid is studying in LKG and I would like to know about the latest update of the school shifting to new premises or not.
About the school I feel that definitely it will go to greater heights in future in the terms of quality education and healthy relationship.
Warm Regards,
Dear Sir, we are trying to get things clarified this very week. Will call a parents meeting in the next ten days or so. Thanks for the encouragement. We know the sharing a building is difficult.
Your website is fantastic and, of course, your educational project is truly excellent. We must keep in touch.
Hi,
Your website was complete and informational. Really liked it.
I will definately visit your school soon.
Keep up your Great work.
Hi Melinda for Gyanankur school Keep the great work,you are setting a precedent in the child freindly education specially for the underprivilage chidren where they will know God Loves them and he holds theri future in his hand and there is no discrimination, They are prcious Tare jameen par or in the slums.
may the Lord bless you.
Rajan & Paola Dass
Is the school shifting in new premises?
The Eon Gyanankur school is to have a new building by June 2012 We have to manage one more year in the current building. PDEA are planning to build the new building across the road where there is empty land beside the current PDEA college.
Madam,
As u said the new building work in not commenced, how will it get completed in next year June?
Please note this website is not a a specifically Eon Gyanankur schools’ website but a broader NGO which owns the village school and does not own Eon Gyanankur but merely helps with teacher training etc. As Eon Gyanankur school has come fully under PDEA maybe we should set up another website. However most of our parents dont speak english or have email contact so …. those few parents who do can send direct emails to gyanankur@gmail.com until a proper school email is set up…..and they will be addressed forthwith. The applicatoin for broad band has been put in this week.
Also note there are notices up on the board with timings to meet teachers and the headmistress and all aprents are welcome to set up a meeting. A number of parents have met the HM according to the schedule given.
You are doing an amazing job there. All my best wishes to the selfless men and women who make this happen everyday. You all are a blessing in so many lives. Keep up the good work.
Hi, I live in Kharadi, and i want to contribute to this extraordinary effort.
I can volunteer and help you in matters such as fund raising, child sponsorship, English speaking teachers, etc.
Can you send me your contact details on rohit.hajela@gmail.com
Hats off to your effort.
Such a nice project you are running. I am just dying to see your school at earliest. loved it so much. Hats off to you guys.
i have saw many schools but this is the best. My daughter is studying in your school she never compliant about the school .
Hi Melinda,
This is wonderful. Thank you for your service to our people. Thank you to all staff working there making this endeavor a success.
hi my son is studing in your school and he is very hoppy
Wonderful work, look forward to help you in any way I can in the future.