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Yuva Hindi Sansthan Wins Prestigious

Fulbright-Hays Award

OUR BUREAU language and culture of modern India
and increase their proficiency.
New York, NY
A mini-conference will be held in
he United States Department of Spring 2023 to showcase the curricu-
Education awarded this year’s lum developed by the group.
Tprestigious Fulbright-Hays Pro- Ashok Ojha, a journalist and
gram to NJ based non-profit organiza- teacher by profession is also the di-
tion, Yuva Hindi Sansthan. The orga- rector of the Fulbright-Hays program.
nization is engaged in teaching Hindi Ojha is a K-12 certified teacher for
to US born school kids since 2010. Social Studies content area. He has
“This is a unique opportunity for been consistently awarded US Gov-
educators and students to visit India ernment grants since 2010 for direct-
on a study tour for one month and ing STARTALK Hindi Programs. He
study the impact of climate change”, manages two non-profit organiza-
said Ashok Ojha, YHS program di- tions, Yuva Hindi Sansthan and Hindi
rector, who is responsible for conduct- Sangam Foundation, both dedicat-
ing this program. ed to promotion of Hindi language
According to Ojha, Ful- in USA and beyond. A prolific scrip
bright-Hays Study-Tour Program is writer and media professional Ashok
fully funded by the US Dept. of Ed- produced dozens of Film and Video
ucation. “We are recruiting twelve documentaries on socio-cultural top-
participants from a diverse group of ics, such as, ‘Tribal Welfare’, Girl’s
teachers, emerging teachers and col- Education’ and ‘Child Labor’.
lege students with a career goal to
teach Hindi, culture, social sciences,
environmental sciences and arts at
elementary, middle, high and commu-
nity colleges in the U.S. The partici-
pants will travel to India, study climate
change and develop K-14 curricula
for Hindi learners in the USA.”, said
Ojha.
Ojha and Prof. Gabriela Nik Ilie-
va, of New York University, will lead
the study Tour to India for one month
by end of the year 2022. During the
one-month study tour participants
will collect and organize topic-based
audio, video and textual materials
as resources for developing the final
thematic curriculum documents. this
material will be used to develop cur-
riculum documents in Hindi and area
studies. The Curriculum materials will
be disseminated in the United States
in order to support and enhance lan-
guage learning and teaching.
Yuva Hindi Sansthan is support-
ed by a partnership with New York
University (NYU), University of Tex-
as at Austin (UTA), Michigan State
University and Kumaun University,
Nainital, India. The Consulate Gen-
eral of India, New York, NY, is also
supporting the program.
The program is designed to men-
tor U.S.-based community and other
school and college Hindi teachers, and
college students in education to ex-
pand their knowledge about the Hindi

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