Education

News Update/press release Bengaluru, 26 August 2021: More than 800 unprivileged children living in and around Nallurahalli, Bangaluru will now be able to get higher education thanks to Huawei India – a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. The Aahwahan foundation in cooperation with Huawei, CSR India has taken the initiative to construct a Government High School to provide education to children from financially unstable families.  Commenting on this initiative, Mr. Gilbert Millicent Nathan, AVP; Huawei CSR India said that “From the past few years, we have been actively contributing towards the development of local communities. Keeping in mind the need for good infrastructure in government schools and with a strong belief that the learning environment and infrastructure are

Mumbai, August 10, 2021: With an intent to make education accessible to every student, JK Cement announced the construction of 250 ramps in various government schools in the district of Jaipur, Rajasthan. Naming the initiative, ‘Banaye Har Raah Aasaan’, it ensures that every single child avails the opportunity to access their right to education, thereby fostering an inclusive academic ecosystem in the process. This initiative was in commemoration of JK Cement’s Late CMD, Shri Yadupati Singhania. JK Cement’s commitment towards inclusive education aligns with the Government’s National Education Policy which targets at ensuring equal and inclusive education to all students. The said policy states that all higher education institutions in the country should ensure that all educational buildings and facilities should be

News Update/ Press Release New Delhi, 30 July 2021: Aahwahan Foundation is a Bengaluru-based NGO working pan India that aims to bring equality in society through its various measures focused on eradicating poverty, unemployment, women inequality, and promoting girl’s education.Continued access to quality education can ignite far-reaching changes and provide a voice to marginalized communities globally. The Foundation has experienced the transformational capabilities of widely shared learning at the grassroots level and witnessing the adverse impact of them not being fulfilled. At Aahwahan, we believe that India’s economic miracle has been on the foundation of its high-quality education. We have understood the importance of skill development along with school learning. The IT domain is expanding fast and there is an

News Update /Press Release Delhi, June 16, 2021: The adversity and plight that Covid-19 has has brought along with itself has  disproportionately affected the Indian education system which largely depends on traditional classroom teaching. India’s poorest children have not been in classrooms for more than 15 months now. To build a better India, it becomes need of the hour  to address the educational inequity in the country. Teach For India has been working to repair the fractured education system, through the commitment of caring and responsible Indians’ who apply to a highly selective, two-year Fellowship. This year, 650+ Fellows (teachers) have agreed to stand up for India and show up for India’s children, by joining the 2021 cohort and leading the charge against educational inequity. Ever since

News Update/ Press Release Bangalore, 31 May 2021: IBM (NYSE: IBM) is recognizing three teams from India in its annual Volunteer Excellence Awards for their innovative work in making education more accessible during the pandemic being innovative in their community volunteering during 2020. The initiatives and people being recognized include a 10-person team providing remote mentoring for girl students, a 43-member team that recorded audiobooks for visually challenged learners, and a 12-person team conducting webinars for technology students to sustain education projects during Covid lockdowns. The IBM teams recognized from India are part of 15 IBM volunteers or winning teams from 25 countries who were selected worldwide. The organizations associated with each winner will each receive a grant from IBM of USD

News Update/ Press Release INDIA, 10 March 2021 –Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF), founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, and HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, have come together to enable online education for underprivileged children in India. As part of this initiative, over 1,740 new Nokia smartphones worth over Rs. 1.65 crores would be distributed to children across rural areas and urban slums, survivors of child exploitation, as well as the first-generation learners of the Banjara community. The phones have been donated to children who are beneficiaries of two flagship social interventions of KSCF: Bal Mitra Gram (BMG) Bal Mitra Mandal (BMM) In addition, the phones will also be distributed to the residents of Bal Ashram, a

PRESS RELEASE EdIndia, the strategic CSR arm of Sterlite Power, has collaborated with Uttarakhand Education Department, in order to address the teaching-learning challenges in post-COVID class rooms. EdIndia launched a state level online orientation session for over 28,000 primary teachers of the state on 3rd November 2020. Dr. Mukul Sati, Additional Project Director Universal Education, Uttarakhand, and Ms. Seema Jaunsaari, Director- State Council of Educational Research & Training, Uttarakhand,- formally launched the post-COVID Teaching package in the session, while addressing the participants online.  The enthusiasm and active participation of the 4,000 teachers, who joined online on EdIndia’s YouTube channel, was evident from their comments in the chatbox. When schools reopen, teaching would be a challenging task due to students’ learning loss