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Partners: India Literacy Project Hyderabad


The Rainbow School could not exist without the partners. These non-profit and government organizations do everything from deliver the mid-day meal to sponsor extra teachers. We are only successful with our rugged, go-to partners. We can not go it alone.

Today, I want to write about Manmohan Jain and the India Literacy Project (ILP).

The ILP is a volunteer group of corporate employees from all around the Hy-Tech city area. Manmohan does a fantastic job, with his staff coordinator, making sure each government school gets at least one visit each week from the ILP volunteers.

They have worked at the Rainbow School since 2007, one of our longest partnerships.

They provide help with scholarships, stock and help with the library, and provide mentoring alongside their usual "teach-ins." When volunteers come to teach, they use big books made from huge posterboards. The children can read along even from the back of the room. This method, developed at the Columbia Teacher's College, really does work to push literacy at a fast rate. ILP uses English books, and helps students learn along with English-Hindi-Telugu as necessary.

For more information on the ILP, see this website: hyd.ilpnet.org THANK YOU, MANMOHAN and the ILP!

Here is an ILP volunteer with a former Rainbow School teacher, Neha, who now works at the ILP.


And here is a link to our previous blog posts on partners:
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/03/leaving-india-meet-your-partner-ngos.html
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2007/08/partner-organizations-mv-foundation.html
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-wall-of-mastan-nagar-and-greatest.html
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2007/10/wwwprathamorg.html
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2006/10/fantastic-great-news.html
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2006/04/special-needs-children.html

And on NGO work in general:
http://rainbowprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/ngos.html

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