by Akshara Foundation | Dec 10, 2023 | community, Ganitha Kalika Andolana, GP Maths Contest, Gram Panchayat Maths Contest
Every day is flooded with fresh harvests in Chitradurga or Kodagu, or with efforts to catalyse the Contests in other districts. A few days ago, Angelina Gregory, Akshara’s Divisional Field Manager (DFM) met the Zilla Panchayat CEO of Davanagere district at a...
by Akshara Foundation | Jan 10, 2023 | activity based learning, Akshara Ganitha, community, Ganitha Kalika Andolana, government school, impact, leadership, math
Delivering quality education to every child in India is a huge challenge. The size and scale itself are daunting – about 1.5 million schools, 8.5 million teachers and nearly 250 million children. In 2001, the Indian government took a bold step and created the Sarva...
by Akshara Foundation | Oct 6, 2022 | citizen engagement, community, volunteers
Akshara Foundation’s work has attracted many people who are strongly passionate about education, and who want to make a similar difference in their hometowns. One such person is Mahesh H, a team leader from G. Hosalli village in Gubbi taluk, Tumkur district, close to...
by Akshara Foundation | Sep 22, 2021 | community, covid vaccination, Covid-19
Akshara has always believed in the power of strong engagement with the community way before it became fashionable and enshrined in the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP2020). And it was this power that we put to test in the 22-week period between May 1, 2021 and...
by Akshara Foundation | Jun 7, 2018 | community, government school, sdmc, success stories, teachers
Here you will find a temple priest and SDMC President who is a role model for the youth of his village. This is the story of Dayananda Swami who studied only till class 12 and now experiences a world of enjoyment in teaching children in his village. An active...
by Akshara Foundation | Jun 7, 2018 | Akshara Ganitha, community, Ganitha Kalika Andolana, government school, sdmc, success stories, teachers
This is the story of Almas Kousar, the Nali-Kali teacher for classes 1-3, who stresses on cleanliness. She also teaches students of classes 1-5 English at the government primary school in Doranalapalli village, Rashcharevu cluster, Bagepalli taluk. Every morning,...
