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Of the 250 million children worldwide who cannot read or write, two-fifths reside in India, where for a quarter-century Pratham has been working to alleviate this crisis.
We develop low-cost solutions to improve the quality of learning and work with governments to take them to scale.
Our community-driven approach has engaged hundreds of thousands of volunteers and has affected the lives of 75 million Indian children.
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USHA’S STORY: MOBILIZING ACTION AROUND THE WORLD
Recently, the head of Pratham’s content team, Usha Rane, reported from Niger, where she was leading the training of the local team in Pratham's Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) methodology. In Africa, like in India, Pratham-trained instructors not only improve schooling and learning but, in doing so, also become deeply engaged with the children and their lives. Usha provides a gripping account of how a set of determined and caring individuals mobilized action around the world to change the life of a child on the verge of blindness.
