A model for Manipur. A method for India. An idea for the world.

Phase 1 GATE Phase 2 GATE Phase 3 GATE Phase 4

Every initiative here begins with one question. What does this give a child whose future is compromised?

This section sets out East Wind's practical work to help expand the economic pie in the concerned geography. Four phases, each initiative within them, and the academic thinking each one is grounded in. It names the initiatives and the scholarship that justifies each one.

Phase 1

PAULO FREIRE, AMARTYA SEN, B.R. AMBEDKAR, SARAH DRYDEN-PETERSON

Teacher and Curriculum Support

Partner schools receive teacher training, curriculum support and community development, with textbooks and workshops, so children keep learning.

PAUL WEHR, JOHN PAUL LEDERACH

Volunteer Programmes

Volunteers teach at partner schools or help with administration, on the ground or remotely. Every volunteer is vetted for child safety before any placement.

ZEYNEP TUFEKCI

The Content Economy

Schools, teachers and every stakeholder are encouraged and appreciated for creating their own content and sharing it through East Wind's channels. East Wind separately produces its own high-quality content: interviews, podcasts and similar material.

The Research Programme

Standing capability, running across all phases

Research that checks our own work and builds knowledge from the region: the history of the region, sustainable frameworks drawn from the region and aligned with global ones, and checks that East Wind's own work does what it says.

AMARTYA SEN, WILLIAM J. BAUMOL, FRANCES STEWART, ELINOR OSTROM, KATE RAWORTH, WALTER STAHEL, HERMAN DALY

Entrepreneurship in Crisis Situations

Taught by a team of professors & entrepreneurs who have worked with multilateral development institutions, alumni and stakeholders of leading global business schools, with associate faculty from top universities around the world. Two strands, Resilient Enterprise and Regenerative Enterprise, with AI running through both. One cohort. One venture list. When families can earn through disruption, children stay in school.

Rebuild Readiness

Technical groundwork that gets damaged schools rebuilt faster: assess the need, prepare the designs and technical diagrams, then rebuild. The design is provided by an international construction partner and the rebuilding is delivered by local partners.

ELINOR OSTROM, KATE RAWORTH, TWO-EYED SEEING

East Wind Chapters

Under construction. Completes by the end of Phase 2.

Owned and run by an entrepreneur from the region, inside the entrepreneurship cohort. A place for research and open discussion, and a welcome for independent-minded travellers and remote workers. Located in the Indian Eastern Himalayas.

GATE

Phase 2 begins once Phase 1 KPIs are met.

Phase 2

Early planning. This phase opens when the KPIs of the preceding phase are met.

Support to Rebuild Schools in the Region

A transparent listing of what partner schools need: the material, who supplies it, and the full cost. Help reaches the school directly.

TWO-EYED SEEING, WILLIAM J. BAUMOL

Culinary Craft-to-Brand Initiative

Training cohorts that turn local craft into brands: learn it, codify it, scale it, then brand it. Once a recipe is sealed and ready to scale, the entrepreneurship programme builds the brand, and the communities whose knowledge it rests on share in it.

Travel to Manipur

Community-driven, responsible travel built with a partner, with the benefit reaching communities directly.

GATE

Phase 3 begins once Phase 2's own parameters are met.

Phase 3

Early planning. This phase opens when the KPIs of the preceding phase are met.

SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE, RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Moirang School of Indian National Movement

A future school of alternative learning.

GORDON ALLPORT, THOMAS PETTIGREW, FRANCES STEWART

Student Exchange Programme

Children from different communities spend shared time together. Later it widens to families and adults.

TWO-EYED SEEING, WILLIAM J. BAUMOL

Brewing Craft-to-Brand Initiative

Global best practice in brewing joined with traditional community knowledge, taught to cohorts and taken to market for the benefit of the communities.

GATE

Phase 4 is named, not described.

Phase 4 TBD

NAME ONLY, NOT YET DESCRIBED

School

Enterprise

Connection

Voice and Knowledge