Pratham is one of the largest education NGOs in India, but is not well known outside of the country.
In the words of Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, "Pratham's impact on the lives of millions of kids has been tremendous; it is quite simply an exceptional, best-in-class organisation that has managed to scale across India." Pratham has won many prizes, including the Kravis Prize, the Skoll Award, the WISE Prize, the LUI Che Woo Prize and most recently the Yidan Prize.
Pratham conducts high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the education system. Their best-known programme, Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), teaches basic literacy and numeracy in as little as 30 days for £14 per student. They offer this in 10,000 villages in 21 states in India. The World Bank has recognised this model as an important method to make up learning lost due to the pandemic.
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