Katha

katha translation for equity network

KTEN addresses the problem of equity in access to knowledge and education for our country’s underprivileged children, studying in secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, and seeks to empower them with the tools and skills necessary for them to realize their true potential.
It pledges to help them take full advantage of the increased job opportunities of a knowledge-based globalizing economy.

Aiming to impact the lives of 100 million Indians in the 15-25 year age group, KTEN is designed to promote economically disadvantaged students in non-English medium institutions, so as to eventually create a level playing field for all, by

• Increasing their knowledge base through open access to seminal essays/texts translated into the bhasha each student is comfortable in.

• Improving their English reading, writing and comprehension skills in systematic, innovative ways, to enable competent and creative expression and better communication.

• And to achieve these ends, catalyzing mass collaboration, through the Internet, among teachers, students and resource persons across India.

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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.