India Literacy Project

India Literacy Project ( ILP ) is a volunteer-based organization with chapters across US and India.  

India Literacy Project, aims to enable children in government schools to attain grade-appropriate skills and create pathways to productive careers. This organisation especially focuses on vulnerable communities that face challenges in giving their children primary education. Its interventions focus on such communities and tackle challenges like out-of-school children, poor attendance and retention.

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ILP was founded in 1990, in the USA, by a group of Non-Resident Indians inspired by Dr. Parameshwar Rao, a scientist trained in the U.S. He returned to India in 1967 to dedicate his life to improving the lives of the rural poor in India.

One of the goals of ILP is to set up child-friendly libraries in every Government school they work with and equip them with books that kids would love to read!

ILP uses the Hippo Campus reading program called GROW BY Reading.  It starts by colour coding all the books in the library using six colours, Green to Yellow (GROW BY- Green Red Orange White Blue Yellow). Children are first assessed on their reading levels and are then encouraged to pick books from their level. This way, the child always picks books that the child is capable of reading and understanding and hence developing the interest to read without getting discouraged. Once a level is achieved, the child is encouraged to move to the next.

Through child-friendly books and a structured framework and monitoring process, their library programs bring the joy of reading to the classroom and help improve reading in native and English languages.

ILP also has created digital lessons which are open source, in subjects such as math, science and social science that are currently being accessed by more than 745,000 students in 7,900 schools across 7 states this year alone.

Ankitara Foundation has donated to ILP’s library project.

Visit them at https://www.ilpnet.org/