About
Pratham is India’s largest non-profit organization working in the area of primary education. Our mission is “Every child in school and learning well”. Recognizing the importance of early interventions, we focus most of our programs on pre-school and primary education.We believe that by providing children with a good education, we create opportunities not only for them, but also for their families and communities.
Seeded by UNICEF in 1994, Pratham was founded in the slums of Mumbai by Dr. Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay. Currently, we serve underprivileged children across 21 states in India. Our direct programs, including pre-schools and community libraries, reach out to more than 200,000 children per day in over cities in India. The Read India campaign led by Pratham aims to teach 60 million children of ages 6-14 how to read, write and do basic math by the end of 2009. More than 21 million children have already benefited from the first year of the campaign.
This blog has been set up to build an online community that shares Pratham’s ambitious goal of ensuring that every child in India is in school and learning well. You are invited to join our community and contribute in whatever way you can. Every bit counts, a little help goes a long ways.
