IMPACT
Many of our children are in college today. Others are working
in mainstream organizations like Infosys, IBM, Citibank.
The Katha All in School Mission [KASM] ensures that all
our children complete school up to grade 12. Our Friends
have helped us make significant strides with donation
of time, expertise, experience and money. We foster culturelinking
through storytelling that benchmark alternative education,
and empowerment of women and children living on the margins
of society. Unearthing stories from oral and written traditions
across India and the subcontinent, preserving and passing
them on as potent instruments of social change, we have
looked at translation as a non-divisive tool for the country
as a whole and have worked towards breaking age-old gender,
cultural and social stereotypes.
KATHA’S MILLENNIUM GOALS
To give
India’s young people a chance to bring themselves
out of severe poverty and hungre, we pledge to meet the
following goals we have set ourselves for 2010:
GOAL 1 QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
LEARNING
for children below the age of 5. All studies have shown
that when children get early childhood education, they
stay till school graduation! But most Delhi slums do not
have quality ECD centres for toddlers and babies –
places of fun and frolic, where they can learn pre-school
skills. Katha has 50 centres. And we want the pregnant
women and lactating mothers to look after their little
ones. Come start with us – to give our kids a great
START!
The aim: To
give childhood back to a toddler in a slum with just Rs
200/ USD 5/month/child.
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GOAL
2 INCREASED READING SKILLS
Having touched more than 2 million children across the
country with our magazine, Tamasha!, and thousands in
Delhi through reading festivals, utsavs and workshops,
Katha spearheads a major READING CAMPAIGN for all children
in our communalities across Delhi.
The
aim: 200,000 students reaching a reading ability of
600 words! Rs 60 for 6 months [USD 5/yr] for 600
words.
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GOAL
3 QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL
Katha works
with 71 street and slum communities in Delhi. That is
nearly 10,000 children who are ours.
The
aim: To bring the 10,000 children into formal education
by 2010. Cost: Rs 420/month/child or USD 10/month/child.
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GOAL
4 GREAT BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
From toddlers to young adults, children ages 2-17 –
they all need quality books to read. Nice colourful books
that will take them into adventures of the mind, make
them which gives children from nonliterate families the
books they deserve, that excite them to read. Colourful,
in quality paper, attractive.
The
aim: To gift great books for our children in Hindi
and English at Rs 200/ USD 5/month/child. 10,000 children.
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OR Bid
for our Books: Rs 80,000 [USD 2000]/book.
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GOAL
5 EQUITY/EQUALITY FOR YOUTH
80 per cent of India's children study in non-English medium
schools. when they reach college -- if they do -- they
are son dropouts for we valorize language over knowledge.
help young people break out of the shakles of poor education
at secondary and post-secondary levels. Join the TRANSLATION
FOR EQUITY NETWORK. Contribute a small amount to make
this mass collaboration work!
The
aim: Help translate at Rs 100,000/ USD 2500/month/language.
4 Indian languages, Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi, Tamil.
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GOAL
6 FREEDOM FROM THE MANY HUNGERS
Today our communities live lives in India's proud capital
lacking decent civic amenities: proper toilets or water
supply. They need to grow economically strong, as families,
individuals, communities.
The
aim: Help us train our women entrepreneurs, the Katha
Shopkeepers Guild at Rs280 [USD 7] month/trainee.
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GOAL 7 BASIC AMENITIES FOR THE URBAN POOR
Urban India wants the poor to build our bridges and malls;
but we do not want ot see them or know them. This means
precarious lives for nearly 50% of Delhites, in degraded
physical environments, without even the basic amenities.
The
aim: To give women and children minimum basic amenities
so they can live decent lives. Rs 4,00,000 or USD 10,000/community.
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GOAL
8 STRONGER PARTNERSHIPS for development.
Mass collaborations is what Katha has been driving since
the early 90s. Growing communities that care and share;
communities of writers and storytellers of every ilk –
from dancers to theatre people, from writers and playwrights
to translators and academic, from performing artists to
visual and plastic artists. If you tell a story, in any
form, you belong with us! Come power the Katha internet
site which forges and strengthens partnerships between
individuals and entities – for a larger good. Katha
is looking for volunteers and e-whizs at the computer!
The
aim: A capital campaign to bring in 100 volunteers.
And to raise $ 3 million this year.
SPONSOR NOW!
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Challenge 2010
These are the CHALLENGE 2010s we have taken for
ourselves:
A child who has been in Katha will never live in
poverty again.
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KATHA IS 20!
In 2008
Katha turns 20 and the year 2008 – 2009 is of special
significance for us. The tumultuous events and issues
played out across the world have made us realize the growing
importance of our work where the wave of hatred spreading
increasingly along the lines of race, religion and language.
The strains of poverty, overpopulation and social strife
demand their toll. Though India is among the 10 fastest
growing economies in the world, we are still to put level
playing fields in place.
We strongly
believe that, for India, where habits have taken a long
time to make, the story is one of the most valuable means
of change. Each one of us in Katha sees herself/himself
as a change agent.
Join us
in our fight against poverty and injustice! Write to us
at katha@katha.org
If you would like to volunteer, mentor, or visit our schools,
write to volunteer@katha.org
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