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Pratham's (www.prathamusa.org) goal is to ensure that every child in India is in school and learning well. We need your support to help us reach this goal! Your donation will fund many Pratham programs including pre-schools, community libraries, the Read India program, the outreach program and Pratham books.

Last year, Pratham's direct programs, including pre-schools, libraries and the outreach program helped more than 200,000 children every day. Read India has already impacted more than 21 million children in one year. For more information about Pratham's achievements in 2007-08, click here.

Pratham USA is a 501(c)(3) organization, and all non-event donations are fully tax-deductible.Over 92% of the funds raised by Pratham USA go directly to support programs in India, so the impact of your funds is maximized.

Our Federal Tax ID # is 76-0620808

You can help in a number of ways:

1)Spread the word. Write about us in your blog, on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, other social media you might be on. OR talk to your friends about us, and spread the word, the old fashioned way.

2) Adopt a village: Form a group with your friends and provide books for an entire village. The cost to fund a small village is $2500.

3)Adopt a classroom: Either by yourself or with a group provide books for an entire class. The cost is $250 to fund a classroom.

4)Adopt a child or two or three: You can provide a book for
-a child for $10,
-for two for $20
-for three for $30

DONATE NOW!! https://donation.prathamusa.org/payment.aspx

Every bit counts, a little help goes a long ways.

Pratham is India's largest non-profit organization working in the area of primary education. Our mission is “Every child in school and learning well”. Recognizing the importance of early interventions, we focus most of our programs on pre-school and primary education. We believe that by providing children with a good education, we create opportunities not only for them, but also for their families and communities.

Seeded by UNICEF in 1994, Pratham was founded in the slums of Mumbai by Dr. Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay. Currently, we serve underprivileged children across 21 states in India. Our direct programs, including pre-schools and community libraries, reach out to more than 200,000 children per day in over cities in India. The Read India campaign led by Pratham aims to teach 60 million children of ages 6-14 how to read, write and do basic math by the end of 2009. More than 21 million children have already benefited from the first year of the campaign.

Pratham India was able to achieve significant successes in 2007-08. Some of the year’s highlights included the following:

#Read India reached over 21 million children in 358,233 villages across 19 states. Pratham also trained more than 375,000 volunteers and 877,000 teachers in its teaching techniques.
#Our Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) tested over 720,000 children across more than 16,000 villages, establishing a picture of learning levels across the country and spurring education reform. We also established the ASER Institute to institutionalize and strengthen the process of conducting ASER.
#Our urban direct programs benefited more than a million children across 15 states.
#Our pre-school (balwadi) programs benefited over 56,000 children, preparing them for regular school.
#More than 600,000 children borrowed books from our community libraries, developing their reading abilities
#Nearly 200,000 children benefited from our remedial learning programs run in communities. An additional 200,000 children learnt how to read, write and do math through Pratham programs run in 2,285 schools in urban centers across India.
#Pratham’s program for child laborers impacted 5,433 children across 7 states and influenced several national and state policies on child labor.
#187 computer assisted learning centers trained almost 70,000 children.

To LEARN MORE about Pratham visit:

www.pratham.org for Pratham global.

www.prathamusa.org for Pratham USA.