Ramji states that Agastya has touched the lives of over one million children and 30,000 teachers since its establishment in 1999.
Their projects benefit children in rural and urban areas. Underprivileged children are also benefitted. The various programs foster creative thinking, application of knowledge, team work, and leadership skills among the children.
Agastya works with a team of 500 full time employees and 300 teachers.
Equipped with arts, ecology, science and mathematics labs, their vans travel far and wide giving hands-on science education to children. They cover couple of government schools daily. Each session extends to 2-3 hours and in a day around 50-100 simple experiments are demonstrated to the children.
Ramji Raghavan was Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions in Citibank back in 1993, and later set up his own business in New York, returned to India to start a school, but ended up setting up 'Agastya Foundation,' an educational trust that promotes scientific temper and the spirit of enquiry among children in the age group of 6-18 years.
Agastya had one science van in Bihar. Former President Abdul Kalam was so impressed with its service that he donated one of his prize moneys to Agastya for buying more vans to be used in Bihar.
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