FW Weekly
Originally Posted: December 17, 2014
An HEB teacher’s programs and charity work are helping students and teachers on several continents.
Bhavani Parpia’s trip to India in 2011 changed her life and affected many thousands of students and educators around the world.
As the international business program coordinator for the Hurst-Euless-Bedford school district, Parpia had received a federal grant to take 17 area educators to study development in her home country. Visiting an AIDS orphanage, she asked a question of her lunch companion, a young boy with HIV.
“Like any adult, sometimes you ask children ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ ” she said. “His response was, ‘I don’t know if I will live to be an adult.’ That answer just stumped me. I was appalled at myself for asking.” READ MORE