Pratham Mysore - A Children's Literacy Movement
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Pratham Mysore

Every Child In School and Learning Well...

Pratham Mysore is a community based grass root organisation promoting the cause of educating the underprivileged children of Mysore, India. Driven by the mission statement, Every Child in School and LearningWell Pratham Mysore has successfully delivered programs of education at pre-school and primary levels to around 15,000 poor children in Mysore and surrounding districts.

Stars of our programs

We at Pratham Mysore always had high hopes for our library program reaching out to children in poor communities and really facilitating and stimulating their learning. But none of us imagined for one moment that we would give rise to a phenomenon we know as "Abdul Rahim". Abdul is a 12 year old 7th standard student in Srikanteshwara Vidya Samste, who has become an "active" member of the Pratham library facility at the Gulzar Fathima centre in Shanthinagar. "Active" may be an understatment given that Abdul reads almost 1,000 books every year!!! Moreover, Abdul participates in the entire spectrum of Pratham's library special programs, encouraging his peers to read more regularly and extensively, and even bringing the gift of story-telling to the family home by narrating stories in Kannada to his parents. Recently, Abdul undertook a roleplay based on Pratham's library books in his school's cultural program and won first prize for his perfomance.