Pragathi

Pragathi is a US-based, registered, non-profit organization, with a mission to accelerate progress in the areas of literacy, Women's empowerment, and improving the standard of living in India.

The organization's strategy is: "...to bring the best practices and programs to its Focus Areas. Pragathi works with multiple Non-Profit Organizations, picking up on their Core-Competencies and Implementing and Funding to achieve its Mission. For example, in the area of Literacy, Pragathi has partnered with several local Non-profits to reuse their programs..."

Pragathi has 7 current projects (As of March 15, 2009). Some of them are multi-school projects, targeting schools in a specific area, instead of individual schools. The projects they are working on are: Project Indian Ocean, Accelerated Reading Program (ARP) with the Akshara Foundation, Yelahanka school teacher supplementation, Notebook project with Sikshana, Drinking water for village schools, Odanadi – half-way home, and Project Pipeline.

Objective: Help improve the school environment by providing desks, benches, library books, teaching and learning material, lab kits, sports equipment etc.

Scope: Twenty five rural government primary schools with appx. 2200 children

Location: 24 towns/ villages in the Kodihalli cluster which is appx 125 km from Bangalore

Budget: $46,000.

Pragathi partnered with Rotary International in India and in the US on this project. Pragathi’s contribution was raised through the fund raising concert Indian Ocean in Austin.

Status: Project implementation in progress

Objective: Improve basic reading skills through the accelerated reading program developed by the Akshara foundation (Pratham). Pratham’s research has found that one of the most critical problems facing government school children in India is lack of basic reading skills. Many children are unable to read simple sentences even when they are in grade 7.

Scope: Twenty five rural government primary schools with appx. 2200 children

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