A campaign to allow an organ donation option on drivers’ licenses in the Indian state of Karnataka is Priyanka Shylendra’s project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme. According to Citizen Matters of Bangalore, Shylendra has been working with transport commissioners in the state and an NGO called Gift Your Organ Foundation (GYOF). India does not have an automatic option for drivers to be able to choose to be organ donors, and Shylendra and the commissioners hope a Karnataka program can be a model for the whole country.
From November 27th and 29th, in conjunction with International Organ Donation Day, a three day awareness programme took place which included media coverage and celebrity events. Soon Shylendra will be meeting with the health secretary and other organizations to move the project to the next level. Read more at The Bangalore Citizen.
In Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, a Londoner has created a project to bring colour and vibrancy to her city in a variety of ways. On January 16th, ‘Colour Your City’ held its first meeting to come up with different ways for people to ‘Colour Your Day’.
Plans include developing large scale art projects to colour neighborhoods, planting new gardens and flowers, creating homemade craftwork for public locations, and even having individuals dress more colourfully. Read more at Colour Your City.
Leading Indian news network IBN recently wrote about projects created in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme in Chennai, India. Each of the projects mentioned improved the city in some tangible way. One woman took on having companies adopt sections of bad road in the city for improvement, bringing attention to the issue. Another man is tackling illiteracy by setting up a one-to-one teaching programme. Read about all the different projects at the website of the Indian Broadcasting Network or at Landmark Education News.
On Wednesday, November 9th, a concert event took place as part of Emily Bingley’s project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programmme. The concert/recording event, titled ‘Concert on the Lewin’ took place from 6:00 – 7:30 in the evening and featured music by a variety of jazz, folk and classical music performers. Specifically, there was a the Cam Sax Quartet, a jazz group; Nicky Hair and Andrea Cockerton, a duo featuring jazz and folk violin; and classical music played by Classic Buskers ‘on unlikely instruments at unusual speeds’.
The event took place for patients at the Lewin Stroke and Rehabilitation Ward at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge – a recording was made, and proceeds went towards stroke and rehabilitation ward at the hospital.
A participant in Landmark Education’s SELP programme in the UK has written a self-help book as his project, titled ‘Awaken to a Balanced Life’. The book was written by Hernando Garces, with the intention of looking at every area of one’s life, and how when can achieve effective action, change and balance in those areas.
The book also tells of Garces’ journey from being raised on a farm in Columbia, to becoming a successful IT consultant to London’s financial institutions, to leaving that whole career behind to pursue what is next in his life. To find out more about Garces and the self-help book he has written, visit Garces’ personal blog.
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A campaign to allow an organ donation option on drivers’ licenses in the Indian state of Karnataka is Priyanka Shylendra’s project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme. According to Citizen Matters of Bangalore, Shylendra has been working with transport commissioners in the state and an NGO called Gift Your Organ Foundation (GYOF). India does not have an automatic option for drivers to be able to choose to be organ donors, and Shylendra and the commissioners hope a Karnataka program can be a model for the whole country.
