Katha

katha reading campaign

Katha wants to extend its network across India, extending the creative web bridge of knowledge and education to as many children as possible! The Indian Reading League is Katha’s effort to bring innumerable number of children into our league. The IRL covers 4 zones of Delhi, with 13 franchisees and 13 leagues in each zone. The ambitious project is bound to share the joy of reading with as many children as possible.

Katha’s belief in innovativeness, not one time innovation, has led to an invitation from the Government of Delhi to work with 2.4 million children, 60,000 teachers and 3,000 librarians to enhance the reading skills of their children and teachers. Through this campaign, Katha will join hands as the sole implementing partner with the Government of Delhi to bring the joy of reading to children in the age group of 5-17. Several MCD and Government schools across Delhi have been brought under its ambit.

Katha was started in 1988 with a children’s magazine and was fully registered as a nonprofit organization in 1989, serendipitously on World Literacy Day, September 8. Over two decades, Katha has brought the joy of reading to 100,00,000 children. Since 1988, our books and children’s magazine, Tamasha! have reached out to 30,000 schools.

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Three-Braided Curriculum

Scholastic Training: Formal traditional and non-traditional subject skills.
Academic Diploma - NOS Certification Vocational & Entrepreneurial Training: Management, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. Katha School of Entrepreneurship Diploma) IT Training (Katha IT & Ecommerce Diploma)
All curriculums including life skills to prepare the child for employment and becoming a productive member of family and society.

Key Frameworks

Teacher training: Intensive training of teachers each year, aided by a Faculty Club programme to maintain excellence.
Honing student excellence: Katha's FINGA Principle finds, initiates, nurtures growth and applauds excellence in our students.
Leveraging reading: Developing taste or RUCHI is at the bottom of Katha's reading initiative. RUCHI increases a child's ability to read, use, comprehend holistically and intuit meaning for greater language power.
L.I.F.E. Skills: Lifelong Learning. Income generation. Family wellbeing. Empowerment
C9 Habits: Lifeskils training that excites children to curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.
TAQeED: Teachers Alliance for Quality eEducation

Support Programs

Katha Student Support Center: Supports Katha children who have transitioned into government schools
Maha-Mandal: Mothers association; parental and community involvement
Women's Income Generation Program: Combination of self-help and formal training to empower women. There are more than 70 women's Self Help Groups which work towards their family's upward mobility.
Shop-Keepers Guild: Several hundred shopkeepers participate in personal and community economic revivals. [The last two groups function only from the Katha Lab School.]

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katha learning system
A powerful tool that has, since 1990, situated the child in the community of carers and brings this community into the curriculum and the school, making learning relevant as well as cooperative..

early childhood education

With 50 community schools that focus on early childhood learning, Katha helps children living in poverty to link formal education with career pathways.

katha lab school
To impact 80% of the urban disadvantaged communities, starting with Delhi,the lab school hones Katha's well-defined recipe that enables children and youth to reach their potential..

professional schools
The Katha School of Entrepreneurship. The Katha Info Tech School. The Social Work Institute help youth get out of poverty..

schools on wheels
1000 street children come into our IT schools on wheels! Since 2001, the Tamasha Roadshows have brought the joy of reading and formal education to urban child workers

katha reading campaign
An exciting and innovative way of bring large numbers of urban children into assured reading skill: The Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi have invited us to work in 300 of their schools.

teacher education
With a 160 hour annual training and regular twice-a-month faculty club meets, Katha's teachers are an excited lot!

the school & poverty alleviation
Kath, since 1990, has been the centre of community action and economic resurgence. Today, the movement thrives in 71 slum and street communities.

research
This year's focus is on early childhood education. And equitable education for our youth.

katha translation for equity network

There are 100 million youth in our country, stymied by lack of English and hence unable to perform well in college. K.TEN addresses this obdurate problem.