Kanthari international

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Kanthari international" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

8°26′19.51″N 76°59′32″E / 8.4387528°N 76.99222°E / 8.4387528; 76.99222

kanthari is an educational and training institute at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It was co-founded by Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg in 2005, with the first members jointing in 2009, as an extension of their pioneering project Braille without borders.^[1] The not-for-profit institute aims to identify and train persons who have had to face adverse social conditions including physical disabilities, poverty, war strife. Its original official name was "International Institute for Social Entrepreneurship". However, to avoid the common notion of monetary gains using the word 'entrepreneurship', the founders renamed the project as kanthari. The initial lower case letters used in the name are intentionally kept as a symbol of their ideology.