Dear Rahul,

Muruganantham is a typical 10 year old Indian boy: he absolutely loves to play cricket. He is happy when he succeeds in school, but he used to have a great deal of trouble with math.

Since he enrolled in Read India’s small, supportive after-school programme, he has been doing well in school. He has one little sister, who is enrolled in Read India’s pre-school program, so that she will be well-prepared when she arrives in primary school.

Though his parents work in a paper mill and on local construction projects in a village in Tamil Nadu, in southern India, Muru wants to be a policeman when he grows up. With the help of Pratham, maybe he will do just that

Thank you, Rahul, for enabling Pratham to help children like Muru dream big.

Dear Nikhil,

Priya hails from Poondi village in Tamil Nadu, India. She loves to play the traditional Tamil game of khokho with her friends. She has one elder brother, who went to school up until 10^th grade, when he quit school to help their parents with farming.

Priya is enrolled in Pratham’s Read India program, and with the help of their activity-based learning methods, Priya has learned to solve complex addition problems. She hopes to become a teacher herself one day!

Thank you, Nikhil, for helping Pratham make a master mathematician out of Priya.

Dear Lauren,

Devadharshini is a six year old girl from Poondi village in Tamil Nadu, India.  Though her parents at one time owned a small local hotel, ever since her father abandoned his family, her mother has been doing local manual labor to support Deva and her older brother.

Devadharshani could not even identify letters or numbers, when she first started taking the Read India classes conducted by Pratham. Today, she has mastered the basics, and wants to become a maths teacher one day.

Thank you, Lauren, for enabling  Deva and others like her to fall in love with reading and mathematics.

Dear Kiran,

Arthi is nine year old and lives in Amirthapuram village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She attends 5th grade at her local government school, but was struggling with her classes, because the quality of teaching at her school was less than satisfactory.

Arthi is now enrolled in the Read India program, and is making tremendous progress in reading and math. Now, she helps other new students to learn the 247 syllables of the challenging Tamil-language alphabet! She also loves to dance.

Thank you, Kiran, for enabling Arathi to achieve her full potential.