by Akshara Foundation | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Why a Community Festival?At Akshara, we create programmes in Government Primary Schools and Pre-Schools (Anganawadi-s), that are intended to help improve educational outcomes at these institutions. Among the aspects of each program is an Outreach to Community, the...
by Akshara Foundation | Oct 24, 2012 | akshara, books, kannada, library, painting, primary education, science lab
The Spirit of VolunteeringFor people who volunteer for a cause it is the ultimate sublimation. Volunteering is activity on a higher plane, an attempt at an idealized world – the involuntary instinct for the level playing field, breaking down barriers of inequity...
by Akshara Foundation | Oct 21, 2012 | akshara, Anganwadi and Preschool, child under the age of six, hubli, speech impairment
A Picture of Lakshmi Lakshmi is four and a half years old. There is cautious anticipation in her eyes as she gazes into the camera – a look that conceals more than it says. Still and obedient she stands, a neat, folded, white handkerchief pinned...
by Akshara Foundation | Oct 6, 2012 | akshara, hoskote, ivolunteer, jgw2012, shoot for a cause
We had recently participated in the “Shoot for a Cause” contest organized by iVolunteer. The objective of this event was to give a platform to volunteers to create awareness videos of the causes which they believe in. Our volunteers, James Adaickalasamy...
by Akshara Foundation | Oct 4, 2012 | demography, finances, government school, infrastructure, klp, mla, mp, open data india
KLP’s Megha Vishwanath has recently written a blog post for the Open Data India Blog to explain Akshara Foundation’s Karnataka Learning Partnership project (KLP), which collects open data, aggregates and deploys it to make a difference in Public schooling...
