[Editor's Note: We asked our summer guest blogger in India, Shreya, to tell us all a little bit more about how schools in the developing world use the arts for education. She responds with this visual post.]
Shanti Bhavan is not only an institution that emphasizes academic excellence, but also one that shapes the personalities and worldviews of the children form a young age. What the children do outside of the classroom is deemed just as important as how they perform within. What follows are visual posts on these developments that are non-academic in nature, especially through performing arts such as dance and music.
Alison Futura has been training the school choir
The 8th grade girls are learning how to play the cello from Summer Boggess, a professional Broadway musician
Sabala Baskar, a graduate student from Washington D.C., teaches dance to the 11th and 12th grade girls
[Editor's Note: Thanks, Shreya! Anyone else interested in volunteering at Shanti Bhavan now?! It's on our bucket list. 
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