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2000
Akshara Foundation was set up as a Public Charitable Trust
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2003
Akshara sets up independent Early Childhood Development (ECB) centres and provides training to 400 women , to become edupreneurs’
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2003
Akshara extends its programmes to the underdeveloped districts in North Karnataka
2006
Implemented Oduve Naanu, a Remedial Reading Programme for 70,000 children across 1,425 schools in Bangalore
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2006
Akshara initiates Karnataka Learning Partnership (KLP), a public technology platform and community-driven change maker for our elementary schooling system
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2007
Akshara’s School Library Programme implemented in 1,425 schools across Bangalore, impacting 2,15,000 children
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2007
Large-scale ECD implementation in 2,500 centres across Bangalore, Dharwad and Malur, covering 70,000 children
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2008
The Karnataka government rolls out Oduve Naanu reading programme to 46,000 schools across the state
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2010
Akshara Ganitha, a support Math programme rolled out in the Sandbox - 49,000 children from 620 schools in three blocks of Karnataka
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2011
Swalpa English Thumba Fun, aimed at supporting spoken English competencies introduced in Sandbox
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2015
Ganitha Kalika Andolana (GKA) with a goal to impact 2 million children begins with phase-1 in 6 districts Yadgir, Bellary, Kalaburagi, Bidar, Raichur and Koppal.
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2016
Akshara begins building sustainability of GKA with Community Interventions – facilitated Math contests at the Gram Panchayat level.
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2016
Built a cadre of Village Education Volunteers to energize the school system and enlighten communities. Over 9,000 volunteers till date
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2017
GKA Phase-2 rolls out in 6 additional districts. Bengaluru Rural, Chamarajanagara, Chitradurga, Chikkaballapura, Dharwad and Gadag.
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2017
GKA piloted in 2 districts of Odisha – Bolangir and Rayagada
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2017
1-3-6-9 Wall Writings in every village making the community aware of meetings they need to attend, to monitor quality of education being imparted
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2018
Building Blocks, a FREE learning app was launched on Google Play Store.
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2019
GKA Phase-3 rolls out in remaining districts of Karnataka. Odisha and Akshara sign MoU for GKA to be rolled out in 20 additional districts.
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2019
All Gram Panchayat Presidents in Karnataka are given a class-wise, school-wise report on performance levels of children who participated in the GP contests
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2019
GP Contests are completely community driven. Phase 1 alone saw ~1000GP contests
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2019
Building Blocks available on MHRD’s Diksha Platform and to be accessible via QR codes in textbooks across Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu
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2020
20 Years of Akshara Foundation
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2020
TRAINING. anywhere, anytime. We created a host of teaching-Learning videos on every aspect of GKA. These are equivalent to 6 whole days of physical training. Teachers can now, watch them from anywhere, at any time.
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2020
Started a podcast 'Pratibimba' to help teachers, HMs and officials from the Education Department, who have been directly involved in the implementation of GKA to share best practises, learnings and highlight success stories.