Your Words about Our Work

• This story is from Vadivu Govind, a blogger and social activist from Singapore, who visited the M.K. Gandhi Institute in October 2010.

  My only exposure to Gandhi, while growing up, was a statue we had at home of him and the movie, Gandhi. But my own transformation from using anger as a fuel for social change to using more love led me to visit the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence...

• This letter is from Alykhan Alani, volunteer and board member of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, to the President of the University of Rochester: Joel Seligman.

  Dear President Seligman, My name is Alykhan Alani.  I sincerely thank you for your audience, and would like to take this opportunity to describe the Gandhi Institute’s involvement in my life and contextualize its importance to not only our Universi...

• This is a blog entry by Kevin Varkey who supported the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence for 2 months as an intern:

  The first time I heard about the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence was around three months ago.  I distinctly remember frantically talking to anyone and everyone about possible summer internships, while at the same time writing pap...

• This is an 'Open Letter of Gratitude to the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence' by Anna-Kristina Pfeifer who spent 11 months at the Institute as intern, researcher and videographer:

  *Love as an action* This letter has been wanting to be written for weeks and months. And the waiting deepened the richness of the gratitude that lives within me. This gratitude is widening, ever extending in continuous circles and is rooted in a...

• These are the impressions from Erin Obi (Transitioning Post –Secondary Students with Intellectual Disabilities. (TPSID)

  We visited the Gandhi House on a cold December morning.  We were greeted outside the house by Mr. George Payne.  We received a warm welcome and a very detailed tour of the new premises.  My students and I felt welcome and received. The overall expe...