by Akshara Foundation | Jan 30, 2015 | Akshara Foundation
October 2014 was an overwhelming month for all of us at Akshara. It was the month we held 38 holiday camps for 2800 children across Hoskote. Aptly titled ‘OUR CHILDREN, OUR PRIDE’, These 3-day camps comprised of village walks, games, singing and drawing competitions,...
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...
