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Episode 2 · Education Leadership Series
Like a Swan on a Lake
Lotus Petal Foundation
Three leaders at a non-profit school in Gurugram, India on keeping the child at the centre, the pressure nobody sees, and what success looks like.
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Calm on the surface
Lotus Petal Foundation in Gurugram works with the vision of transforming lives through education. It provides an integrated pathway of education, nutrition and livelihood for children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, through the school it runs and its live teaching platform.
Founder Kushal Raj Chakravorty tells how it began, on one cold winter morning at a bus stop, and why the organisation looks like a swan on a lake: calm and serene from outside, vigorous paddling below. Sangeeta, Senior Wing Headmistress, describes the planning and coordination behind every school day. Rajat Pangasa explains how monitoring and evaluation keeps the data accurate for management and donors. Together they talk about funding pressure, keeping the child at the centre, and what success looks like.
Chapters
Six parts, 15 minutes
When you look at the organization it looks like a swan moving in a lake where when you look at it from outside it is very calm and serene. But if you just look below, then it’s a vigorous paddling which is going on to maintain that serenity.
