The Gift of Education

Опубликовано 7 сентября 2016, 18:16

ΓÇ£In 1930, Gandhi walked for 23 days. At the end of it, he picked up a fist of salt. That changed IndiaΓÇÖs history forever. Today you donΓÇÖt need to walk. If you pick up a book and work with kids, IndiaΓÇÖs history can change again.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇô Rukmini Banerjee, Pratham. Out of 25 million children born in India in 2010, 40 of them, 10 million children, will never learn to read. Pratham, meaning ΓÇ£firstΓÇ¥ in Sanskrit, was founded in 1994 by bringing together a diverse group of people in Mumbai to create a pre-school for low-income families. One year later, Pratham had over 2000 pre-schools throughout Mumbai. Today, with funding from the Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation and Google.org, Pratham has reached over 34 million children in 300,000 villages and 42 cities throughout India and is changing the face of India from the grassroots village level to education policy and fiscal spending. Join us on October 14th at 2pm at the Microsoft Campus to hear from visionary and social entrepreneur Rukmini Banerjee about how Pratham has become the largest non-governmental agency in India influencing education, and why Pratham has managed to not just survive, but thrive in an extraordinarily competitive and sometimes hostile environment. Learn about the launch of the ASER report (the largest education impact survey in India started by Pratham), Pratham Books (a spin-off from Pratham to create quality low cost educational books) and PrathamΓÇÖs data driven results-oriented model, which chooses to maximize reach and effectiveness by working closely with, rather than against, the government of India.