Pratham Education Foundation

Monday, June 27, 2011

Travelling through no man’s land….

Pratham 3:21:00 PM

My knowledge about Chhattisgarh was limited to the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency in India; the Dantewada incidents; that the State was a part of Madhya Pradesh in 2000 and that it was heavily forested and produced some amazing handicraft. My recent trip to the State for the Joint Review Mission helped me get a better view of the State.

About Us

In a country with over 29 states, over 600 Districts, and more than 350 million children, it is a monumental task to ensure that every child is literate, a task that government cannot accomplish alone. This thought gave birth to Pratham Education Foundation in 1994 with aim of providing pre-school education to children in the slums of Mumbai city. Since then, the organization has grown to become India's largest non-governmental organization to provide education to the underprivileged children in India. Today it is reaching to three million children annually in rural and urban areas across 23 states of the country.