Amarok Society defeats ignorance with the most powerful force known to man: woman. The Society effects change in the lives of thousands of children living in desperately poor slums by empowering mothers.  http://amaroksociety.org/wordpress/
 

 

 

above photo by Mel Baly

In the slums of Bangledesh, Pakistan and Nigeria, Amarok Society teaches uneducated mothers how to read and write, and then teaches the mothers to be neighbourhood teachers – educating their own and their neighbours’ children every day in their homes, with astonishing result.


Author, Artist  and co-Founder of the Amarok Society, Gem Munro, speaks about the work of the Society with his partner Tanyss.