Pratham

• Laxman Pai(73)
• Tanmay Joshi(47) • Nishit Ratthe(86)
• Kapindra • Chetan Thakur(112)
Chaudhary(17) • Vikas Pande(74)
• Ninad Bhate(12) • Aditi Aggarwal(3)
• Tulika Kapoor(52) • Ashfaque Shaikh(98)
• Shalin Shah(95)
• Mukul Dashaputre(22)
 Pratham
• Network of NGOs that
promote primary education
for disadvantaged children
• Started in Mumbai in 1994,
with the support of UNICEF
• Activities in 14 states of
India and has supporting
organisations in the US and
UK
 Objectives
• Rise in enrolment in schools
• Learning in schools and
communities increases
• The education net reaches
children who are unable to
attend school
• Models are replicated and
scaled up to serve large
numbers of children to
achieve a large scale impact
 Pratham team
• Educationists
• Media personnel
• Corporates
• Activists
• PhDs
• MBAs
• Civil servants
 Direct
programs
• Focused intervention: Planning,
conducting and monitoring
• Women from the same
community teach
• Learning occurs in community
spaces like temples, houses,
open spaces
 Direct
programs
• Pratham undertakes a survey in
each slum/basti it works in across
the country. Four key questions
are asked in the survey each year
1. Does every child have pre-
school education?
2. Does every child go to school?
3. Does every child know reading,
writing and arithmatic
4. Do children have access to books
 1. Balwadi
• Urban areas: Low income family
group
• Children of age group 3-5 years
• 20-25 children
• 3-4 hours
• Learning to engage with numbers,
shapes, colours, stories, poems and
songs
• Build the social, emotional, motor
and cognitive skills of the children
• Helps tackle the problem of
retention and achievement at a
nascent stage
 2. Learning
Support Classes
• Build and strengthen the reading,
writing and arithmetic skills of
children-age group 6 +
• Shishuvachan: Language and
mathematics-November to March
every year
• Learn to Read (L2R) Classes: This is a
8 week program targeted at children
who are unable to read simple texts
• An extension of the Learning to Read
class where out-of-school children
are enrolled in these classes as a
priority
 3. Libraries
• Access to colourful and interesting
books in their own languages as
well as in English
• Objective is to ensure that all
children in the communities have
access to books that they can read
• Fun filled activities such as drawing
competitions, craft classes,
quizzes, debates are conducted as
part of the library
 4. Scholarship
Program
• Pratham piloted the scholarship
preparation program in Mumbai in
2007
• Proportion of children coached by
Pratham who passed was 21%
higher than other municipal school
going children
• 250 schools in Mumbai invited
Pratham
• Aim that 60% of the children
should pass the scholarship/
similar competency exam.
 ASER
• Largest household survey
undertaken in India
• Annually measures the
enrollment as well as the
reading and arithmetic levels of
children (6-14 years)
• In 2008, ASER reached over
7,04,000 children in 16,198
villages in 564 rural districts
• Findings of survey referred to in
the approach paper to the 11th
Planning Commission
 Read India
• Pratham’s flagship program
• Problem: Children (6-14 yrs)
attending schools could not
read, write or solve basic
sums
• Executed by school teachers,
anganwadi workers and
volunteers
• Partnerships forged with 11
state governments
 Read India -
Impact
• In 2008-09,the campaign reached 33
million children across 19 states
• Covered 305,000 out of the 600,000
villages of India and mobilized
450,000 volunteers
• In most states, the proportion of
those not able to read alphabets
down to zero 
• Proportion of children able to read
simple sentences is up by almost 20%.
 PCVC
• Pratham Council for Vulnerable
Children
• Challenge – Large no. of working
children
• Started in 2001, Aim – Help
children receive Basic Education,
thereby leading a better life
• Include Prevention, Rescue
Rehabilitation, Repatriation, and
Education of vulnerable and
working children
 PCVC
• 7 states – (from the source
where child labour migrates) to
the receiving states (where the
child labour migrates to). 
• Influencing Policies,
Governments in drafting official
protocol to ensure that the cities
are Child Labour Free.
• Set up residential schools to
teach children.( 3 such schools
in Mumbai and 3 in Bihar.)
 Angrezi – A to Z
• Targets children in the age group
- 8-14 yrs
• Aim-Build their basic conversational
skills and their ability to read
simple texts with comprehension
• Across rural and urban locations.
The classes are usually
conducted in the community
• 75% time Dedicated to Listening
and Speaking 25% time Reading.
Tests are conducted to monitor
the progress of the children
 Computer
Learning
• Established in 1998 to give
relevant IT knowledge and skills
• Impact childrens’ basic learning
levels using IT
• Present in 7 states and 198
centres
• Served over 1,25,000 children
and youth
• Nominal fee charged
 Focus of
Content
• Primary school: School syllabus
covered like basic mathematical
competencies in maths and English,
basic map reading and social
studies
• Secondary School: Project based
module in MS Office, Animation,
Internet, writing letters, resumes,
news articles etc
• Higher Secondary: Specializing in
graphics, hardware and
programming in C, HTML, VB
 JIGAR series
• Targeted at std. 1 to 4
• Based on Maharashtra board
syllabus

• JIGAR 1 – focus on math and

languages
• JIGAR 2 – Right pronunciation
• JIGAR 3 – Improving reading
and writing skills
• JIGAR 4 – Intro to geometry
measurements
 Vocational
Skills Program
• Targeted at economically
disadvantaged youth in age
group 18-30
• Give vocational skills to start
own business
• Teaching relevant skills in
banking, hospitality etc.
• Started in 2005 - 7 centers have
trained over 3500 youth
• Partners include Taj group, L&T,
Deutsche Bank
Entrepreneurship
Development
Program
• 12 Beneficiaries till date – 10 business
and 2 educational
• Businesses started - Photo studio, Fast
Food Restaurant, Hair Salon, Kirana
Store, Ladies Garment Store, Poultry
farm etc.
• Pilot project partnered by Barclays
Bank
• New rural-based refrigerator
‘Chotukool’ marketed with the help of
Godrej
 Future Plans
• Certification recognisation
sought
• Educational loan assistance
• PACE employment exchange
• Tie-up with nursing centers
• Expansion of prison programs to
11
• Current centers to expand in
more locations
• Planning courses in fashion
designing, artificial jewellery etc.
 Overseas
Chapters
• Pratham USA
• Pratham UK
• Pratham Germany
• Pratham UAE
Key Supporters
 Ways In Which
You Can
Support
• Donate
• Volunteer
• Hold a fund raising event
• Join us