PRATHAM UK LAUNCHES “UNDERSTANDING INDIA” DISCUSSION SERIES

Friday 2nd October 2009, Christies, London saw the launch of a pioneering series of discussions, Understanding India, by the UK arm of Pratham, an international charity initiated by UNICEF and dedicated to helping under privileged children in India with reading, writing and basic arithmetic.
Pratham’s mission is to have “every child in India in school and learning well”. Since 2008-09, Pratham enhanced literacy amongst 31 million children living in rural areas in approximately 355,000 villages in India – more than half of the UK’s population – and 350,000 children in 43 urban cities.