Daughters of Destiny

In 1997 an Indian American businessman had a radical idea about how to fight generational poverty and founded a special school in India to make it happen. It's called Shanti Bhavan, and it's the subject of a new Netflix documentary called Daughters of Destiny, which premiers Friday.

Shanti Bhavan accepts only the poorest students, those who come from families that live on less than $2 a day—95 percent of its students are in the Dalit caste. They come to the school when they're four years old and stay until they graduate from high school, getting a better education than they could possibly have gotten in their poor, rural communities, and living in a stable environment designed to help them thrive.
The concept of Shanti Bhavan was inspiring to us as it motivated us to give more... Learn more about Shanti Bhavan   here