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| Founder | Madhav Chavan, Farida Lambay |
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| Type | Not for profit |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Delhi |
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Region served | India |
Chief Executive Officer | Dr. Rukmini Banerji |
| Website | pratham.org |
Pratham is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India.[1] It was co-founded by Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay . It works towards the provision of quality education to the underprivileged children in India. Established in Mumbai in 1995 to provide pre-school education to children in slums, Pratham today has interventions spread across 23 states and union territories of India [2] and has supporting chapters in the United States, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Australia.
Pratham's founder and Ex-CEO, Madhav Chavan, was the 2011 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.[3] In addition, Pratham received the 2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation, as a result of successfully catering to the learning needs of tens of millions of disadvantaged children for over twenty years. In doing so, it has designed and implemented new methods that accelerate reading acquisition, using a grassroots approach in which pupils are grouped by actual levels and needs instead of age, while providing specific training to the teachers and volunteers recruited to its programs. In 2018, Pratham was awarded the Lui Che Woo Prize, a cross-sector innovation prize that recognizes outstanding contributions benefiting humanity. Pratham was unanimously selected in the Positive Energy category, which this year focused on the elimination of illiteracy.[4]
- ^ "Murthy named to Pratham DC board". 22 February 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
- ^ "Kravis Prize Awardee". Claremont McKenna College.
- ^ "Skoll award for Madhav Chavan and Pratham". India Post. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Pratham Education Foundation". www.luiprize.org. Retrieved 17 March 2021.