A brighter future for Avik

Pukuriya is a village in West Bengal, India. While visiting the village to conduct a baseline testing of the children’s learning levels, the Pratham team found all the children playing and fishing near the riverside during school hours.

During the testing, the Pratham team met a child named Avik. He is a student in grade 4. Due to a lack of awareness about the value of education, Avik was not studying. Instead, he would help his father fish in the river and would play with his friends all day long.

When the Pratham team tested Avik to find out his learning levels, they found that Avik couldn’t read a single word. A learning camp was started at his village for ten days. On the first day, Avik didn’t attend the learning camp. The Pratham team met Avik and his parents and told them to send Avik to the camps as it would help him learn. His parents agreed and started sending Avik to the camps.

After 10 days of the camp, the Pratham team tested all the children, including Avik. They found that the children could read a simple paragraph and could do simple addition and subtraction.

Finally, after the third learning camp had been conducted and the children were tested again, it was found that Avik can read at the story level and can add, subtract, multiply and divide. This has made his parents very happy and they now want Avik to study more in the future.

We are grateful for your support and for helping children like Avik see a brighter future!