by Akshara Foundation | Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
As part of the Malur, Dharwad and Bengaluru ICDS project spearheaded by our pre-school team, as many as 251 women now have a new role – that of Wellness Moms. In this role, these women as mothers, raise community involvement and conduct authentic assessment that...
by Akshara Foundation | Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
A visit to the GLPS school in Vardapura and I was happy that I did not turn my back on Government schools. At a time when most of us have succumbed to the onslaught of private school education with little or no resistance citing various reasons, this school makes a...
by Akshara Foundation | Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t a regular Sunday for Shiva Kumar or for the nearly 40 children who crammed his shop – a little chai-cum-kirana shop in an unpretentious low-income area, Satyam Nagar in east Bangalore, home to a straitened community.His rickety, almost tattered awning shop...
by Akshara Foundation | Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
They are school children for heaven’s sake…photo credit: http://indianexpress.comHow does one even express or articulate the horror of what happened at Peshawar. Taliban ‘kill over 130’ school children in Peshawar. Is it just...
