The New Heroes Part One

This is a video created to accompany the first song on the record, The New Heroes. It features images by director Carl Byker and filmographer Mitch Wilson of social entrepreneurship projects in India. Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and David Green use what Green terms "compassionate capitalism" to give sight and hearing back to millions of people who would otherwise be blind and deaf.

As a schoolteacher, Inderjit Khurana used to take the train to work. And each day, in the stations, she would come into contact with dozens of children who spent their days begging from train passengers rather than attending school. She learned that it was not a rare or isolated problem and that millions of children in India live on the streets.

Convinced that these children would never be able to escape their conditions of poverty and homelessness without education, and realizing that it would be impossible to enroll these children in school, Inderjit decided to create a model program for "taking the school to the most out-of-school children."

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[magalator]

Thanks so much Christopher. This is fantastic