What Is Balvihar?

Balvihar Hindi School is an educational program of the Atlanta Chapter of World Hindu Council of America (VHPA) and is committed to educating, cherishing and celebrating Hindi language and Hindu cultural heritage. Balvihar operates on an educational, social, cultural and spiritual basis and is open to all. Balvihar is balanced in its approach: physical, intellectual and spiritual.

Balvihar committee members work on a purely voluntary basis. We are driven by the simple desire to serve and educate our youngsters about our great Hindu heritage. All volunteer teachers go through several levels of consistent professional training to enable students to learn in fun filled environment.

Balvihar syllabus & curriculum is based on foreign language standard currently applied in schools and purposeful real life taskbased, age appropriate communicative activities. Individualized feedbacks are used to address learner differences. Lesson plans are developed keeping the main focus on Hindi language and culture.

Balvihar program is equally divided in academic & cultural parts, which emphasizes on language & Hindu culture. It is mandatory for students to participate in the whole program.