The Sambhaavnaa experience has had a profound impact on the way I see my milieu and nation now. As a production engineering student, I was getting trained to identify the problems of the industries and work towards eliminating them. But I was equally interested in understanding the problems confronting our society and nation as a whole. Some of us spot illiteracy as a problem while others think poverty, poor health, lack of nutritious food, water, electricity, large population, job shortage, environmental degradation as major issues plaguing our nation.

It is said that “when a student is ready he is bound to find a teacher or facilitator”. When I came to know about Sambhaavnaa Institute’s First Summer Programme I knew I found my Guru. Sambhaavnaa experience holds a special place in my life and there are many reasons for it. First the selection process- the application form contained a section on the ‘motivation’ to apply for the summer program and it really formed a bedrock to begin articulating my thoughts & putting them into words and inshallah! will lead to action (have already taken some baby steps). Thankfully the program was not a series of classroom sessions but contained a mix of a week-long ‘experience sharing’ by eminent personalities who have devoted their entire life to a cause followed by a month-long ‘field or grassroots experience’ and a reunion of another one week to share field experience.