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BIHAR GOVERNMENT HONOURS dr. RUKMINI BANERJI
 Dr.
Rukmini Banerji, Director - Programs and senior member of Pratham's national leadership team, received the Maulana
Abdul Kalam Shiksha Purashkar from Mr. Nitish Kumar,
Honorable Chief Minister of Bihar. Dr. Banerji received the
award for the exceptional work she has been doing with the
government to popularize education among out-of-school
children and to increase enrollment in schools. The award
which has been constituted for the first time was given at
the Shiksha Diwas function held in Patna on November 11.
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PRATHAM COLLABORATES WITH TIMES OF INDIA |
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Pratham ties up with Times of India to offer volunteering
opportunities in it's
"i can read english"
program to teach india applicants in Mumbai and Delhi.
"i can read english"
is a part of the Read India campaign and focuses on helping
children improve their English at a basic speaking and
reading level allowing them to have a simple conversation,
thereby increasing their confidence levels. The program has
been operational in the municipal schools of Delhi and
Mumbai since September 2008 and in Bengaluru since October
2008. For more details
click
here
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DR. RUKMINI BANERJI SPEAKS AT THE
ANNUAL CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING
Dr. Rukmini Banerji, a senior member of the Pratham team,
recently spoke at the
Clinton Global Initiative Annual
Meeting held in New York on September 24. Dr. Banerjee was
part of the panel on the Global Expansion of Programs That
Increase Quality Education.
Other Panel members included Maria Keita Diarra, Founder,
Institut pour l'Education Populaire and Michelle Rhee,
Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools. Dr.
Banerjee spoke about the work Pratham is doing to provide
disadvantaged children with access to quality education in
India and the Annual Status of Education Report.
To see the video of the discussion,
click here.
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PRATHAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOUTH ASIA CENTER OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOSTS A READ INDIA CONFERENCE
The South Asia Center of the University of Pennsylvania in
collaboration with Pratham hosted a conference on Read India
at UPenn on Oct 3 and 4. The objectives of the conference
were to share experiences of Read India with researchers and
other countries to facilitate cross-learning of experiences.
The conference also sought to build a wider base of
collaborations for inquiry into key dimensions of elementary
education and social campaigns in India. While the Read
India experience provided the anchor for the discussions,
participants used different disciplinary perspectives and
experiences from diverse contexts to enrich the debate on
how to generate and sustain quality learning for children on
a massive scale in developing countries.
To find out more about the conference,
click here.
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PRATHAM :
RESPONSE TO FLOODS
Since 2006, Pratham has been working with Bihar government (BEP)
and UNICEF in many districts in Bihar under the umbrella of
the joint program called SANKALP. Of the badly flood
affected districts, we have worked in Araria since 2006.
Pratham’s work in Katihar, Purnia and Supaul started in
March 2008. Thanks to successful summer camps, for all of
these districts, Pratham has a significant presence and
reach. Madhepura, Saharsa and Khagaria are new districts for
Pratham. We intend to work in these districts as part of the
joint SANKALP teams immediately and in the long run.
We currently have close to 450 full time people in Pratham’s
rural team and we are actively redeploying our team into
these districts to be able to live and work there for the
next 4-6 months and longer as needed.....more
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here for Pictures
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State wise contact for
relief materials
For
more updates click here
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