Support Generously To Make Rickshaw Story Time A Success
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Who we are
During the early days of the pandemic, teachers from Communities Rising traveled in Rickshaws through the narrow streets of Villupuram serving hot meals to the homeless, in addition to providing weekly rations to families. More than 10,000 families were taken care of and more than 1,500 hot meals were served. The Rickshaw was free to use after the rations and hot meals were delivered. This is how Rickshaw Story Time as a part of the Rickshaw Feed and Read Program was born!
Teachers from Communities Rising now travel by rickshaw to the schools where they run English Literacy programs. At each school, they distribute school supplies, masks, snacks, and storybooks from Pratham Books, that children can keep. Teachers also read 2 stories at each school. The Joy of Reading lives on! However, there is a steady need for storybooks in English and Tamil across a variety of themes .
Our work and its impact
Pratham Books with a mission to put “A Book In Every Child’s Hands” is a not-for-profit multilingual children's book publisher based in Bangalore, introducing children to the joy of reading. Pratham Books offers diverse solutions to ensure children have access to a wide range of books to support reading and knowledge acquisition among children. In 16 years, Pratham Books has published over 5,000 books and distributed more than 30 million printed books and story cards (mini storybooks) across India.
Communities Rising believes that every student regardless of their economic or social status deserves a quality education. From a single village, after school program, for 45 students, in 2009, they have grown to an educational provider serving over 2,500 teachers and children.
Their programs include - After school programming, Computer Education, English Literacy training, Social and Emotional Learning programming, and Summer camp.
Communities Rising teachers spend 10-15 minutes of each English class on independent reading.
How we will utilise these books
Pratham Books is distributing 2 books per child to 2,500 childrenthat Communities Rising works with. But we can't do it without you. Please support generously to make Rickshaw Story Time a success.
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| Name | Donate Amount | Date |
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| Mayuresh Shirgaokar | ₹20,000 | November 08, 2020 |
| DAB Admin | ₹1,930 | December 09, 2020 |
| Varsha Jain | ₹1,000 | November 06, 2020 |
| Prem Anand Kumaravel | ₹1,000 | January 07, 2021 |
| Anuroopa P | ₹250 | December 16, 2020 |
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| Divya Mudappa | ₹2,500 | November 15, 2020 |
| Sneha John | ₹1,000 | November 15, 2020 |
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| Archana Natarajan | ₹2,000 | November 14, 2020 |
| Shikha Gupta | ₹1,000 | November 13, 2020 |
| RAJALAKSHMI VENKATESH | ₹500 | November 12, 2020 |
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| Sreyssha George | ₹5,000 | November 10, 2020 |
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