Deborah, AACC's executive director is working with the Royal University of Bhutant (RUB) to help implement Gross National Happiness (GNH) in the classroom. She spent five months in 2012 alongside 62 Bhutanese lecturers from RUB on the first phase of a three-year research study. The study is to indentify the classroom pedagogy elements that algin with GNH, deign workshops for lecturers and students, and develop a MA and PhD graduate degree program on holistic GNH education offered through RUB.  To read more on GNH click here

To read the report from the first and second rounds of the study, click here.....

Read Debbie's BLOG at: http://dybhutan.wordpress.com/0

Taktsang  (Tiger's Nest)                                                                                                               Paro Dzong

Paro Dzong at night with the museum above on the mountain side

Enna Kladstrup

Enna is repressenting AACC while traveling to Nicaragua, India and Bhutan to study and implement alternative methods of education that create inspire, engage and empower children and teachers. This is to help ready the young people for the challenges of the future so that they can integrate  best practices into our own education system.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats

La Chureca is the largest landfill in Managua. It is home to more than 1,500 people, some of whom have been living there since the late 1960's. For the residents, unemployment is about 100%, drug use is extremely high (glue huffing being the most popular) and prostitution starts with children as young as 9 years old. People work gathering recyclables from the garbage dumped in the landfill for 12+ hours per day, on a good day, earning the equivalent of $1 or $2 US dollars.