By Krisstina Rao | Communication Associate
The beginning of August saw the Atma welcome 9 new NGOs aboard the Accelerator Programme at the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind in Tardeo. Through strategic support and a 3-year partnership, these NGOs will be guided towards stronger leadership and better funding so that they are able to improve and expand their programmes, ensuring that their students are achieving meaningful academic milestones.
These 9 organisations, namely Anandi, Maharashtra Dyslexia Association, Mona Remedial Centre, Mentor Me India, Urmi Foundation, Spark-A-Change Foundation, Sunshine School, Sankalp Charitable Trust and Suyoday Trust are going to work in partnership with Atma to make their organisations bigger, better and stronger. Through this partnership involving at least 1200 hours of support, 3 dedicated volunteers (annually) and 1 dedicated Portfolio Manager, these organisations are going to work within 10 organisational development areas to increase the capacity and impact of the work they do!
With 7 of these 9 organisations focusing on education of children with special needs, this marks the expansion of Atma's 2016 Special-ed Cohort! Founder of Spark-A-Change (SAC) Nirmala shared with us what her kids pitched in enthusiastically, "Teacher, we learn the same things now as before. But now we understand what we learn".
Here's wishing our new cohort the very best. Onwards and upwards may they go!
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