Ashfaq loves the fable of the lion and the mouse

Thank you for coming together to ensure that Ashfaq and 34 other children like him are enrolled in Pratham’s Read India program for a year.

Seven year old Ashfaq lives in a slum community in Mumbai, and studies in grade 2 at a local school. He loves watching cartoons on TV, and dreams of becoming a police officer. Ashfaq is just learning to read, and he loves attending the Read India Library Program. He loves these classes, because he is encouraged to pick up whichever books he wants to read, and not have books thrust upon him. His favorite story is the fable of the lion and the mouse, which he reads in his native Urdu.

Your donations will ensure that Ashfaq and 34 other children like him are enrolled in Pratham’s Read India program where they are provided need-based instruction in reading, writing and basic arithmetic to bring them to the literacy levels expected of children their age.

Thank you, for doing your bit to ensure that ‘every child in India is in school and learning well‘.