translating stories transforming lives

warm greetings!

 

Katha is a "profit for all" organization impacting social injustice and economic poverty in urban India. Quality education for children and an innovative programme that hones reading ability in children is at the core of our work.

 

Katha leverages its mission goal on a single powerful idea: Children can help their communities get out of poverty. And our aim? To transform every child into a community leader through relevant education.

 

Today we help bring positive change into the lives of children and their mothers, living in 72 slum and street communities across Delhi; and in the tribal villages of Arunachal Pradesh. 50,000 children got quality schooling in the last decade that took them to college and well paid jobs! A 2008 sampling of salaries show that just 45 of our alumni earn a total of Rs 5.52 million! [their family incomes were Rs 600-80/month in 1990, according to a government survey.]

 

Our dedicated team of 160, along with our 500 plus volunteers, proactively brings enhanced reading to children living in slums. By 2009, 200,000 children, aged 2-8, will be able to read up to 600 words well and for fun, taking Katha's expertise and experience to new levels of replication and mass collaborations! We bring colourful, innovative and thought-provoking books into their lives, starting with a brave new programme for early childhood education that takes forward our work in this area since 1990.

 

We could not have been effective over the last twenty years without our friends, our writers, translators, teachers, students and community. And as we turn twenty, we remember all of you fondly and with great love and respect. We look forward to working with all of you in the future. Thank you for being with us!

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mission

to help every child in urban slums realise their full potential through community based quality learning.

 

vision 2020

to impact 80% of urban disadvantaged communities across india.

 

education

we bring positive change into the lives of children and their mothers living in 72 communities. to date, 50,000 children have received quality education.

 

story centre

we believe in the power of story as a tool for sustainable learning, character building, and culture linking.

 

people

we have a band of over 150 dedicated staff and over 500 volunteers committed to the cause.

 

our donors

 

      Action Aid
      Aditi Plan
      Alliance Francaise
      American Information
      Resource Center
      Asha for Education
      Asian Ladies Society
      Australian High 
      Commission
      Axis Bank Foundation
      Barington Educational 
      Initiative
      British Council Division
      British Telecom 
      (Worldwide) Ltd.
      Casplan
      Charanjiv Charitable 
      Trust
      Child Relief & You
      Chinese Embassy
      Citibank
      Cognizant
      Delhi Development 
      Authority Slum Wing
      Department of Education, 
      Govt of India
      Dept of Women & 
      Child Development
      GOI
      European Union
      First National Bank
      Ford Foundation
      GAIL India Pvt. Ltd.
      German Embassy
      GNK Plan
      HPS Foundation
      ICCO
      India Cements Ltd
      India Habitat Centre
      India International Centre
      India Tourist 
      Development Corporation
      Indian Bank
      Indian Council for 
      Cultural Relations
      Indo German Social 
      Service Society
      Indo Swedish 
      Writers Union
      Intel Asia Electronics Inc
      International Labour 
      Organisation
      Karnataka Government
      MacArthur Foundation
      Michael & Susan 
      Dell Foundation
      Ministry of Labour, 
      Govt. of India
      National Commission 
      for Women
      Netherlands Embassy
      Oxfam
      Plan International
      PVR Cinemas Ltd
      Reach India
      Rockefeller Foundation
      Seva Riyad
      SIMS Pvt Ltd
      SOAS
      Soroptimist International 
      Vancouver
      SOS
      Sri Dorabji Tata Trust
      Swedish Embassy
      Tech Mahindra 
      Foundation
      TWB Foundation
      UNEP
      UNESCO
      UNICEF
      Wipro

 

 

 

 

phone: [91.11] 2652.4350 | a3 sarvodaya enclave new delhi 110 017| katha@katha.org

katha is a registered nonprofit organization.