Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project is very easy to scale up as cost of starting a centre is practically nil. Our objective is to eradicate illiteracy in India

Project Message

If you want to plan for one year- Plant wheat If you want to plan for 10 years- Plant a tree If you want to plan for 100 years-Educate your women
- proverb, Chinese proverb

Who is Running This Project

D VIRMANI EDUCATION TRUST & MANAGEMENT SOCIETY's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Providing Scholarship for Graduate Study in India

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Education.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 04, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 09, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Project Update & Video

By Anil Virmani - Manager, October 04, 2007 04:52 PM

During the last 12 months we have received donations of Rs.398837/- approximately US$ 10,000.00.

We are running 20 centers for teaching illiterate women on how to read and write Hindi. Each centre has 15 to 20 women studying at one time. Our target is to increase the number of centers to 25 this year and be able to teach 1000 women during this year.

We have added stitching machines in each centre to teach the women tailoring to enable them to earn some money. It is proposed to add knitting machines in the centers next month.

We would also like to share a video with you about our work. (See link below)

There are 350 million illiterate people in India, according to a United Nations report this constitutes one third of the world’s illiterate population. There is no doubt that illiteracy hampers women’s access to information, which is very vital for their overall well being e.g. health awareness, importance of education for their children. Sometimes illiteracy leads to their exploitation in all walks of life. Approximately 2 million illiterate women live in Delhi and to address the problem of widespread adult illiteracy, Virmani Education Trust started its First computer Functional literacy centre at Majnu ka Tila slum cluster in 2003. The program aims to provide functional literacy to adult illiterates. It teaches them to read newspapers, posters, report cards of their children and any legal documents they need. The strengths of this program are many. The drop out rate is low and it is easy to teach because of flexibility to adjust to the learning pace of the individuals and its does not require trained teachers in large school facilities.



Thanks for your support and we look forward to your feedback.



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