Kulsum loves reading books in English

Thirteen year old Kulsum lives in a slum community in Mumbai, and studies in grade 9 at a local school. She is the second of six children – five sisters and a brother- and her father is a tailor. Kulsum’s family realizes the importance of a good education, and are determined to ensure that all their daughters go to school. Kulsum and her younger siblings are all enrolled in the Read India Library Program, which makes learning fun. Though Kulsum is more fluent in Urdu than in English, she loves reading English books, and she wants to become a doctor when she grows up.

Your donations will ensure that Kulsum and 34 other children like her 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‘.