RIVER Team to Germany

Padmanabha Rao, Rama Rao and Raju Asirvadam were invited by the Hanns Seidel Foundation to Germany to be exposed to the Civic Education Program being conducted in Germany. The trip, in November 2008, was of immense educational value and we were made aware of how seriously the Germans were taking the program to educate their citizens. The team was introduced to the program at the HSF Office at Munich, and then saw the implementation of the program at Banz Moonastery, Kloster Banz and ending by a briefing at the Central Office for Political Education at Bonn. During the trip we linked up with Dr Ralf Girg and Dr Thomas Muller of the University of Regensburg. We have collborative programs with that University.