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2004, today the organization has around 100 For the SSCI Program, these are the following
employees and 4000 volunteers, rooted in the steps that ACES Worldwide has followed/ is
community. Nanritam’s most important following:
facilities include the Lokeswarananda Eye 1. Established a Board of Directors and Global
Foundation hospital and Filix School. Inspired Advisory Committee of Space Experts
by Swami Vivekananda’s words that “All including 30 people representing 18
knowledge is within the individual, it requires countries in all continents of the world.
only an awakening”, Filix school has been doing 2. Created a pilot project for South Asia and
wonders in educating the local population in begun signing up new “users” of space
Para, Purulia, West Bengal with its national systems in this region with Compact
level secondary and higher secondary Agreements.
examination results being outstanding and is 3. Started discussions with the African Union
also carrying out community outreach of Space Agency, the Secretary General of the
education for all. An independent evaluation of UN Regional Centre for Space Science and
Nanritam’s Education for All program in 2023 Technology Education for Latin American
found the pedagogy used by Filix school and its and the Caribbean and others with regard to
community outreach to be extraordinarily possibly creating pilot projects for Compact
unique and that there was an overall positive Agreements in other parts of the “Global
impact on fundamental literacy and numeracy South”. Thus, SSCI aims to become a global
skills among children enrolled in Nanritam’s initiative with widespread institutional
EFA program xvii support.
4. Started efforts to work with the U.N. Office
ACES Worldwide’ mission is to strengthen for Outer Space Affairs and U.N. Committee
international alliances by supporting equitable on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to
space policies, laws, regulations, sustainability, perfect this process. ACES Worldwide
safety, education, training and capacity-building hopes that these efforts will result in
and engaging in optimizing humanity’s potential perfecting a suitable and mature Compact
for space exploration and utilization--both on Agreement document format and an official
and beyond the Earth. xviii ACES Worldwide Registry of these Compact Agreements.
endeavors to strengthen and promote
international space cooperation and establish While ACES Worldwide and Nanritam is
new alliances between diverse educational, partnering at the moment for Nanritam’s EFA
technological, civil and entrepreneurial program, the partnership may also extend to
organizations. As discussed before, Space and agricultural development and health, in the
Sustainability Compact Agreement Initiative future. ACES Worldwide would be providing
that caters to sustainable development through technological support with regards to space
space technology via these compact infrastructure to the said EFA project.
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agreements.
One of the ways EFA program’s reach to remote
areas can be accelerated is through use of space
systems. A similar experiment was experiment
for spread of education was earlier carried out
through India’s EDUSAT. Earlier, in 2004,
Indian Space Research Organisation had
launched EDUSAT program (satellite GSAT-3)
under which the first Indian satellite was built
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exclusively for education sector. The said
program enabled an interactive distance learning
system with virtual classrooms and non-formal
education in remote areas. The EDUSAT
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