Keerthana Ravi Shankar, a member of Girl Scout Troop 30821, recently earned her Gold Award after launching a project and creating a website called “Enrichment in Education” to spread awareness about the needs of underprivileged schools in Southern India.
During the summer of 2019, Shankar took part in an internship with the nonprofit Tamil Nadu Foundation. It brought her to the Besant Theosophical Higher Secondary School in Chennai where she assisted students, which led to wanting to improve their educational experience.
“The main concern of this project, Enrichment In Education, is education which provides resources and directs policy to ensure that children enter school healthy and learn about/practice a healthy lifestyle, while being in an environment that is physically safe for students and adults,” she states on the website.
Shankar, a junior at Foothill High School, has been in Girl Scouts since kindergarten. She has been involved in camping, archery, crafts, cookie and nuts sales, volunteering and Leader In Action.
She has also earned the Community Service Bar and the Torch Award, and received her silver award for being on a team that conducted a Fire Safety Awareness Workshop in downtown Pleasanton.
She is the daughter of Preethi and Ravi Shankar of Pleasanton.
This article was originally published by Pleasanton Weekly.
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