Video: Serving India’s Communities Through Character Solutions
Cultivating Christlike Character Brightens India’s Future—Through its Children
The ripple effect moving through India: A Reputation for Good Character
The Character Solutions/India project promoted and provided character training and curriculum for educators and community leaders. CSI enabled these key influencers to integrate character growth into each person’s development of skills and knowledge.
Theme
Personal Responsibility, Interpersonal Respect, Cultivating Christlike Character
Unique Value
- Unified character campaign and curriculum, 14 translations
- Encouraged collaboration across multiple agencies, churches, and sectors
Leadership
- Founder of Character Solutions: John Garmo, PhD
- Director of Character Solutions/India project: Dr. David Dass
- Director of Character Solutions/India training: Charlie Abro
Key Influencers
- 20 Coordinators included: Pastors, educators, community leaders, and retired military
- An estimated 1,200 Master Trainers
Locations
- 20 regions across India
- Project launched from the city of Bangalore (Bengaluru)
Significantly:
- Benefitted families, orphanages, hospitals, street kids, schools, churches, military, government
- Opened new doors for Christians to share the Gospel by building rapport with their own communities to pave the way for the Gospel
- Earned appreciation from the Chairman of the State Legislature in Karnataka
- Challenged Christian believers to be salt and light (Christlikeness) in their communities and families
- Called the general population to raise their standards of moral excellence
Next steps:
- New opportunity within India training a Christian organization that touches the lives of 3.5 million children
Character Solutions International has been active in India since 2008. The character program was first delivered and successfully repeated for Romanian educators in 2003. Since then, volunteers, educators, professionals, and community leaders worldwide are making a greater impact for their nations by using CSI training and curriculum to ensure that character growth is integrated into each adult and child’s development of skills and knowledge.
