Akshara Foundation was established as a Public Charitable Trust in March, 2000. The organization is founded on the belief that quality education is the undeniable right of every child. It was conceived as a tripartite partnership between the government, the private sector and the voluntary sector. While India’s access to schools and enrolment ratio in primary schools is one of the highest in the world, assessments on quality of education report at least 50% of children across grades are below minimum learning levels.
Akshara has designed a model called Ganitha Kalika Andolana (GKA), literally translating to “Math Learning Movement”)- a scaled-up math movement for improving primary math proficiencies in primary and middle school levels and is implemented in partnership with state governments.
GKA has already covered all government primary schools in Karnataka, all government primary schools in all districts of Odisha and 2,500 model schools in Andhra Pradesh. Since its launch, GKA has touched the lives of over 7 million children across these three states. Akshara is the numeracy partner of the states of Karnataka (since 2015) and Odisha (since 2017). Effectively, academic year 2020-21 onwards, every government primary school in Karnataka and Odisha has worked towards implementing GKA.

Appeal

Ganitha Kalika Andolana Field implementation by Akshara:

Provide access to joyful math learning to children in all government schools in the District.
Create a cadre of Education Volunteers to ensure long term sustainability. Today Education Volunteers give 2-4 hours a month of their time completely pro-bono towards sustaining the GKA programme.
Facilitate Gram Panchayat contests to test children for their Math skills
Engage Cluster Resource Persons/ Block Education Officers / Head Teachers in implementing GKA
Facilitate Pedagogical capacity building besides regular training

Our Deliverables:
Ensure every government school in the district has a GKA math kit
Ensure every school has all Mathematics teachers trained in GKA
Capacity building - Build a cadre of state human resources to provide on-site support to teachers
Maintain a technology platform to collect, collate, analyse, disseminate data in a timely and accurate manner
Facilitate Gram Panchayat Contests to assess learning outcomes of children & provide all stakeholders with an annual report detailing performance of each school in math with recommendations for improvement.