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SVA Founding Team
The founding team members of the Sadhana Visionary Academy are:
Dr. Ratna Malar Selvaratnam (Academic Coordinator)
Alagappa Nagappan (Operations Coordinator)
Sannyasin Guhanathaswami (Spiritual Curriculum Coordinator)
Dr. Ratna Malar Selvaratnam
Dr. Ratna Malar Selvaratnam is a peace ecologist committed to bringing peace approaches to human systems. With a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Mississippi, U.S.A. and a Doctor of Education from the University of Leicester, U.K, she has brought her work internationally to Oxford, Manila, Hanoi, and Cochin amongst others, and collaborates with a variety of stakeholders in her home country Malaysia. Her main objective is to promote cultural understanding and sustainable development internationally via values education.
Dr. Ratna Malar was a senior lecturer at Sunway University College, Malaysia from Jan. 2000 - Nov. 2007. She is also the founder of The Peace Cafe; an organization committed to the teaching, learning and research of peace ecology through informal education systems in the region. Currently she is an Education Consultant for projects and accomplishments which include, but extend beyond:
• National trainer for the Women Peacemaker’s Program, funded by the International Fellowship for Reconciliation, The Netherlands;
• Training and publication consultant for mainstreaming gender in the Malaysian environment sector through Malaysian Environment NGOs (MENGO), funded by DANIDA, Denmark.
• The Taiping Peace Initiative, Perak project consultancy, funded by the federal government in collaboration with UNDP and USM.
• Establishing an online community resource portal on peace ecology, The Peace Cafe.
• Values education consultant for Generating Opportunities for the Learning Disabled (GOLD), SMK Bandar Sunway, Selangor.
Alagappa A. Nagappan
Mr. Alagappa Nagappan has a Bachelor in Engineering degree in Electrical/Electronics from the University of Technology, Malaysia. He has worked in the energy and tele-communications sectors of Malaysia. The companies he has worked with include Medic & Comm Services Sdn. Bhd., Alcatel Network Systems (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Harris Corporation and Maxis Communications Bhd.
Mr. Alagappa is the Director and Founder of Vallalar Aranilayam, an organization committed to identifying and helping the hardcore poor, the downtrodden and the underprivileged by providing for their needs mainly through its Food Aid Programmes. He also works with various Hindu organizations including Persatuan Kebajikan Vivekananda Margam, Sathya Sai Baba centres, and Hindu Youth Organization in helping to carry out various welfare activities. In the Education sector, he collaborates with the Kumar Educational Memorial Fund and the Ananthakrishnan Memorial Fund by identifying suitable institutions and candidates for these funds as education aid to rural Tamil schools. These funds provide financial aid for books, tuition and also transport for these students from their respective homes to their school.
Sannyasin Guhanathaswami
Sannyasin Guhanathaswami is a Hindu Missionary. He was trained in Hindu philosophy, worship and Ashtanga Yoga practices under the tutelage of the late Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in his monastery and Theological Seminary in Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Upon the completion of his 12 year training under the Satguru and his senior ministers, Guhanathaswami was initiated personally by the Satguru into the ancient Order of Sannyas as an ordained Hindu minister to be of service to the global Hindu community.
Guhanathaswami returned to his homeland, Malaysia in 2002 and founded the Center for Hindu Studies to provide Hindu philosophy and Hindu arts education. He works with various Hindu organizations, temples and Tamil schools including the Brickfields Kandaswami Temple, Bandar Botanic Klang Hindu Association, Hindu Youth Organization, Vallalar Aranilayam, Lenggeng Tamil School, Kirby Tamil School, Jeevan Children’s Home (Klang), among other institutions to further his Hindu missionary goals.
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