Gem Munro - Amarok Society

Posted by Aman Grewal

on Jun 22, 2016

Photo Credit: Wendy Scott

Our guest speakers name is Gem Munro of the Amarok Society.

He moved to Bangladesh with his family with the goal of fixing the country's broken school system.

Their way of bringing education to the millions of children in the slums was to teach mothers, and have the mothers then teach the children.

Gem spoke about one of his pupils, a woman named Shuley who was completely illiterate and had no formal education. Shuley went to one of Gem's schools to learn and to teach. Shuley is now a teacher at one of the schools. Shuley and a few of the other teachers made a song that went viral throughout the Amarok Society's various schools in Asia.