The 2012 World
Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize for Education has been awarded to
Dr. Madhav Chavan, co-founder and CEO of Pratham, the largest non-governmental
provider of basic literacy and numeracy for underpriveledged children in India. The WISE Prize for Education was established
in 2010 to recognize the outstanding, world-class contribution to education by
an individual or team. Launched in the
slums of Mumbai, today Pratham has expanded operations to 17 of India’s 28
states, and has programs in pre-school education, learning support for
in-school and out-of-school children, computer literacy, vocational training,
and special programs for vulnerable and working children. Independent studies have shown that children
who have participated in Pratham’s programs learn more effectively in primary
school and perform more highly than other children in their age group.
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