Sindhu’s Dream Centers

“Harkness Method with Heart.” Lack of access to knowledge and technology prevents young people from maximizing their energy and imaginations that could solve major global problems, especially in their own communities. 

With Sindhu’s Dream Centers, we are breaking down barriers, providing a knowledge and technology portal to when the community needs it most-- all the while creating new startups and future engineers, scientists, artists, and designers that will connect a new Latin American and Caribbean generation to the coming circular economy. 

Sindhu’s Dream Centers are community and neighborhood clubs connected by an cloud A.I. system that, with Open Science, can offer immediate aid in solving major problems--this access includes a group of willing scientists, researchers, and graduate students who will join the cloud and offer technical advice without borders. It allows people from different economic strata to connect under one platform in their own language. 

There are few Dream Centers, if any, in place within these disadvantaged communities. Approximately 40% of the youth in Latin America lack the skills necessary to lead a life of dignity, yet 15% of all documented innovations have come from Latin America. This shows a systemic disconnect, and I want to fix that. 

Given proper investments into our country-wide network, we will find more discoveries and more creative young women, like the first Latino chosen to be a NASA astronaut, Ellen Ochoa-- co-inventor of 3 patents. But sadly, too many young people in Latin America and the Caribbean have little hope.

The suicide rate doubles for Nicaraguans between ages 15 and 24. In Trinidad and Tobago money is one of the major stressors for young people. All across Latin America and the Caribbean too many young people are on the streets alone, homeless and many times  suffering the burden of mental illness. Society has given up on them. "If I die, I'll just be one less plate to feed for my family. I would be doing them all a favor." Our Dream Centers will prevent this sense of desperation, and future scenarios of social and economic isolation from happening.

We are serving the 40% of Latin American and Carribean youth that lack broad ranges of skills that they will need in the upcoming decades. In Latin America alone 76% of illiterate people are women, and 87% of victims of violence are women. 30% of girls in rural areas can not access secondary school, and women receive on average 37% less income than men. Without addressing these grave inequalities, what hope do they have for a future? How will they become self-sufficient, and  find out who they really are. Unless Dream Centers are put in place these women and young girls will fall into a repetitive cycle of early pregnancy and systemic poverty. In the Caribbean gender based violence is an epidemic that is growing by the day.

Sindhu’s Dream Centers will work to keep students in school and will allow them to make ‘dream become reality’. We will link directly to the community activists and woman centers who are dealing with the affected youth to make a seamless transition from despair to hope.

Our Dream Centers will be the antidote to this inequality and sadness, offering skill training, advice and camaraderie.

We are a support network opening doors to possibilities. We link those who most need it to an Interconnected cloud platform, providing Open Science and equal access, for Latin America and Caribbean teenagers. Sindhu’s Dream Centers are a place to build and innovate, to reach out to the world’s specialists to help solve pressing community issues in real time. Offering a future for all.

In order to create the next generation of start up designers access to basic high school curriculum is necessary. Our Dream Centers will be linked to high school students all over thew world who have committed to being online tutors and friends, giving positive influence and support. This will provide a foundation to grow their dreams. This is especially needed in rural areas. “Close to 60% of both young men and women in rural areas do not complete secondary school.” 

By linking Carribean and Latin American youth-at-risk with India and the USA, we offer a wide range of marketplaces for products made by the youth in our Dream Centers. This will provide income, and motivation to stay in school and keep learning. For those young women who have young children we will link with community activists to create a day care room. We will provide computers, materials, and links to colleges and high schools that join the Sindhu Dream Centers as advisors and compatriots. 

We will initiate a “Builders without Borders” program where students, professors, teachers and “makers” in all professions join us to provide help to the youth of Latin America and the Caribbean. Sindhu’s Dream Centers will organize the future innovators under a singular platform. 

For the woman in the Caribbean and Latin America that are part of the LGBTQ community we offer a safe haven in a sometimes violent storm that many of these women face. For these women joining our Dream Centers will foster economic independence and a positive self image. Many woman, still to this day, suffer discrimination in business due to their gender.  Family business experiences have a major influence on female entrepreneurship, but what about the family’s who do not have business experiences? Sindhu’s Dream Centers will help solve this problem by providing support, encouragement, and experiences for woman who don’t have family inspiration. 

Sindhu’s Dream Centers help young people express their true selves so that all of us together are a catalyst for positive change.

At present there is no other incubation centers or innovation labs that have the connectivity between the countries as do our Dream Centers. We will be connecting (Latin America the caribbean, India and the USA). At present invention studios in the western world seemed to be geared mostly to college students within specific colleges. We want to bring these places where creativity and ideas, the inspiration, to the young people who most need it, latin America and the Caribbean.

Our Dream centers will be partially modeled after Georgia Tech’s Invention Studio where equal access and individual ideas are fostered.  https://inventionstudio.gatech.edu)

If we can begin placing our Dream Centers into rural and inner city areas we can begin to change lives, immediately. 

We will approach Stanford and Brown University for funding for our Centers https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu   and  https://www.fsicon.com

We will also approach other sustainable investors worldwide.

Sindhu’s Dream Centers, we are breaking down barriers, providing a knowledge and technology portal to when the community needs. Sindhu’s Dream Centers create new startups, future engineers, scientists, artists, and designers that will connect a new Latin American and Caribbean generation to the coming circular economy. I have always been dreaming of building, combining, and when the sun gave me energy, trying to give back to life-- by creating answers where questions didn’t seem to be asked loud enough, to my young mind. My app, ‘How Deer You’, was born from disturbing moments from seeing dead animals on the side of the road. And seemingly at the same place year after year. I thought this was a needless and sad death for the animals, and needless expenses that affect everyone with higher insurance rates. My B Pur’e invention is a purifying system that contains CO2 Eating algae combined with a Fungi internal unit that completely degrades PET plastic, and it will be placed on my school campus in the fall. The last two years I’ve spoken and hosted at two TedTalk events designed for high school students to show what inspires them. I have been building  since I was a little girl, as I wondered why slime was so slimy, and why doctors were fixing cuts with slug slime. I want to keep building for the trees and forests, searching for the answers to make the world a more dignified and humane place, and for the place we call home. 

When the dream centers are in place we will serve Hundreds by offering immediate aid in solving major problems. It allows people from different economic strata to connect under one platform. Hopefully in the next five years we will serve thousands, and most importantly serve the  40% of the youth in Latin America lack the skills necessary to lead a life of dignity. Dream Centers will serve women and young girls will fall into a repetitive cycle of early pregnancy and systemic poverty, uneducated youth, families with poor income, families with no homes, and all youth that need motivation and opportunities. 

For the coming year-- we would like to put in place a Dream Center three countries of the Latin American, Caribbean region and then link them with India and high school groups to begin the connectivity, building the bridge so that ideas can be turned into actuality. We also would like to develop our cloud system. Sindhu’s Dream Centers are community and neighborhood clubs connected by an cloud A.I. system that participates in Open Science. For the next five years we want to spread our Dream centers into every Latin American and Caribbean country continuing our policy of helping those who have been marginalized. Our dream centers will inspire all participants to stay in school, and will provide school for families that cant afford education. We will create a new self sufficient generation, and we will put a stop to women and young girls from falling into a repetitive cycle of early pregnancy, systemic poverty, and gender based violence.

The barriers we face are acquiring the finance and then the expertise to fund the Dream Centers and then to create the cloud system. We will begin advocating for this immediately, asking universities and private companies to invest time and some funds to bring positive chan ge where it is most needed. We will also have to overcome the perceived gender roles for woman and for the LGBTQ community.

With positive contributions and quiet perseverance. We will show each area that we are in, how much positivity our young people can bring--everyone wins when talent is nurtured and expressed. Problems can be solved to make life immediately better with the ideas of our Dream Center members.

Our Dream Centers will be linked to high school students all over thew world who have committed to being online tutors and friends, giving positive influence and support. This will provide a foundation to grow their dreams. 

 We will provide computers, materials, and links to colleges and high schools from investments given. We are a catalyst for positive change

Our product is dreams and innovation, offering opportunity to those who are in danger of being lost in coming circular and global sustainable economy. We want to expand to every country in  latin America and the Caribbean, building solidarity, a sense of mission, and most importantly ‘purpose’. More than half of the youth in Latin America and the Carribean need a program like this to help them follow their dreams. Therefore, our market opportunity is high!!!!

3 full time (for now!)

I have first hand experience in creating new designs to protect the biodiversity of the earth. I have also connected to engineers in India and America to help build these designs. My B Pur’e system will be placed at my school, The Pennington School. My ‘How Deer You” app in now finish and ready to go public in a few weeks. 

Currently we are not partnered with any organization, but we will be in contact with Brown and Stanford

Beneficiaries are global--for when the least among us are enabled, we all win-- if a new paradigm is coming, that protects biodiversity and creates a fair share economy it will only truly begin from the dreams actualized in our Dream Centers. There can be no global justice and true civilization when women and young people are disenfranchised and without hope.

Sustained partnerships with investors, governments, the United Nations and universities.

I want to make real change to the world, and solve problems that need to be solved now.

We would like to partner with grassroots community groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. University's like Stanford, Brown, and Princeton (PRINCO).