Akshara Foundation
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Mission Statement
Every child in school and learning well
About This Cause
Akshara Foundation was set-up in March 2000 as a Public Charitable Trust with a mission of Every Child in School and Learning Well. It was a visionary idea in education brought into being by a tripartite partnership between government, the corporate sector and the voluntary community. Akshara is founded on the belief that quality education is the undeniable right of every child and that no child should be deprived of it for want of access or resources. A good education is a universal dream, to be an achiever in school every child’s aspiration, and Akshara believes it is realisable. From preschool to reading, from libraries and a book in every child’s hands to community galvanisation and technology utilisation, from English on a tablet with a textbook-synchronised curriculum to Mathematics, Akshara has developed and implemented low-cost, scalable solutions involving all stakeholders, in public schools and preschool centres in India. Akshara’s six-pronged model includes: - Identifying gaps in the universalisation of public preschool and primary school education. - Providing simple, scalable, sustainable solutions to escalate through the education system. - Aligning the content and methodology it develops with the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005. - Implementing solutions to reasonable scale and with rigorous measurement parameters to demonstrate impact. - Making information available in the public domain in aggregate form and build advocacy around universalisation. - Harnessing technology in ways possible, be it on a data sharing platform that leverages education, in programme monitoring, in an English classroom, or as a Mathematics App on a smartphone. In the last 19 years Akshara has touched the lives of approximately 1.2 million children in the states of Karnataka, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh in India.