Indrani is the superhero street children need
Literacy India has educated 4 lakh children in the past 22 years. Indira Singh is its founder.
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2 min readFeb 20, 2019
- When she saw dozens of children on the streets, who begged, wandered aimlessly, and were hungry, it troubled her.
- In 1995 she started with her own funds. She rented a premise. She recruited a few teachers.
- At first she helped them with studies and tuition. Then she set up Literacy India Vidyapeeth, a school, which helped children complete board exams through open school.
Small beginning, big impact:
- Vidyapeeth is run out of a building at Bajghera, New Palam Vihar.
- Most children are first generation learners. They are from the lowest economic and social strata.
- Going to Vidyapeeth saves them from menial and child labour.
It is expanding:
- It operates in 11 states.
- It has 200 employees.
- It has taught 4,00,000 children.
- They are also working with homeless children.
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- Dell India helped it to develop an interactive programme as per K5 curriculum.
- It also teaches homeless children about Child abuse, health problems, value education, and life skills.
- Children can teach themselves with the software. Anyone who has passed class 12th can guide the children.
- A number of homemakers requested access to the software from her and started teaching their own house help and at times their children.
- It has already helped 1 lakh children.
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