Katha

katha translation for equity network

There are two distinct Indias: the one that is comfortable in English, and one that isn’t. And when two young people, equally smart and intelligent, enter college, the one with this comfort understands better, does better, and in the job market, gets a better pay packet than the other.

According to available statistics, there are some 105 million young people in India in the age group of 15-25. Census projections show this will remain so for the next 20-odd years. Each year, millions of students will be ready, theoretically, for their undergraduate degrees.

High schools and colleges now attract immigrants from rural India from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds. Caste, class and, not the least, language, all stand as obstructions to individual dreams. Working with students from underserved communities since 1990, Katha realized two urgent needs: knowledge that prepares these students for a college education and/or career pathways; and upward mobility and sustainable skills in English.

The 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, so as to eventually create a level playing field for all by:

Helping students from bhasha schools do well in college and expand their knowledge base by providing quality translations of seminal syllabus texts across disciplines in their own languages.

Enabling college students to teach themselves English and improve their reading, writing and comprehension by creating self-access study materials for bhasha stories in English translation.

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.]

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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strategy statement
Our Vision 2020 focuses on children, starting with books for toddlers and reaching out to teenagers and young adults. Our work bridges the UN’s vision of culturelinking with the building of imagination in children and adults.

language activism
Our grassroots work in language, culture and translation strives to culturelink the incredibly pluralistic country that is India.

our translation credo
To bring the best of Indian fiction translated into Indian homes, for children, teens and adults.

the bookshop
Our award-winning books for children benchmark quality publishing for children and adults.

reading campaign
An exciting and innovative way of bringing large numbers of urban children into assured reading skills: 60-600 words before the age of 8.

awards
Katha Awards are nationally feted recognitions in the field of story and translation.

search for excellence
writing contest for children
chitrakala contest

fellowships

tips for contributors
translators & editors

illustrators
children’s writers

academic editors/contributors

translation contest

essays on translation
Katha's well-defined recipe enables India to use translation as a non-divisive tool that fosters culturelinking.

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. KTEN addresses this obdurate problem.

utsavs and celebrations
Since 1992, Katha has brought India and the world together to celebrate story India.

people
Team Katha has 160 enthusiastic people and more than 500 volunteers who bring positive change in the lives of the people we touch. join the community

our donors

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Tech Mahindra Foundation

Axis Bank Foundation

British Telecom (Worldwide) Ltd

Action Aid

Aditi Plan

Alliance Francaise

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