The non-profit, charitable trust is spearheading a people's movement for providing education and empowerment to the rural masses in India. The trust identifies, initiates, supports, and manages non-formal one-teacher schools across the length and breadth of India with a meager donation of a dollar-a-day! As of July 2009 there are 26,855 Ekal schools where 771,315 under-privileged students receive basic education, health-care, and vocational training – aimed at transforming and bringing prosperity to rural India. With Ekal, it is an article of faith - that where the Goddess of Learning finds an abode, the darkness of ignorance will soon disappear and prosperity will set in!

Inder Bery and Surinder Bahl painstakingly organized the Chowki. After Pandit Joshiji, propitiated the Mother

Goddess, Kiran Chibber, Kalpana Bery, Vandana Bhandari, Nishi Sharma, Navin Tyagi, Seema, Tilak, Harjeet, Shama and others rendered melodious Mata bhaints and bhajans. An unexpected treat to the ears were the two bhajans sung in a mesmerizing voice by Nayan Pancholi who was briefly visiting Atlanta from Ahmedabad, India. Mahaprasad was prepared and served with love and care by devout Ekal volunteers. Everything was so delicious that someone aptly remarked that "Mother Goddess" herself has stirred the ladles in each pot!

Ekal raised eleven schools at the Chowki. People were so impressed with Ekal's noble work that they are looking forward to the next Ekal event called "Tapasya" on September 12th at Paces Academy, Buckhead, GA. The Narasimha Academy of Arts is choreographing a thematic dance presentation woven around Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva in their abode at Mount Kailash and devotees are determined not to miss the show.