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Conven�on's House of Friendship was a significant milestone for RILM this year.

T h e o v e r w h e l m i n g response generated over the five days at Atlanta proved we are moving ahead in the right path. Termed as one of the best booth at HOF this year, the T-E-A-C-H stall was buzzing w i t h s e n i o r R o t a r y Leadership and conven�on a�endees.

T h e T- E - A - C - H b o o t h experienced many foo�all of Rotarians from all around the world. They showed much interest in the T-E-A-C-H program and a lso wanted to replicate it in their own country.

Praises poured in as well as visitors. With visitors from

all over America, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan etc. the T-E-A-C-H program reached out to those who want to take up and implement it in areas where literacy is a big challenge. The visitors found the Happy School ver�cal of our T-E-A-C-H program very interes�ng. The before and a�er pictures of one of the Happy School fascinated them and they were eager to contribute themselves in making a Happy School.

The Happy School ver�cal had the maximum takers, along with Adult Literacy and E-learning programs.

Seeing the response and praises from the visitors at this conven�on, it proved that this conven�on is an important foothold for Rotary India Literacy Mission.

We s�ll have a long way to go to fulfill our mission of Total Literacy and Quality Education. We are hopeful that T-E-A-C-H will lay the founda�on for a revolu�on in the global educa�on and Literacy.

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Pragati Andha Vidyalaya says Hello to Non-Braille Computers

Looking back at theProductive Year 2016-17

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Rotarians at T-E-A-C-H Booth at RI Convention, Atlanta

RILM Chair PRID Shekhar Mehta interacting with Rotarian at RI Convention

To view yourAsha Kiran… Child

T-E-A-C-H Recognition Criteria : 2017-18

Highlights

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Dear Fellow Rotarians,

I am amazed at how the clubs and districts in India have taken up the cause of Literacy. Schools, are being built , computers are being provided, teachers are be ing r e spec t ed , r e cogn ized and revitalized, toilets are being put into use, handwashing is becoming the norm and more and more children are being sent to school. It's all happening and happening everywhere, and all the time. It's really like

a crusade. And the battle against illiteracy is finally being fought.

That's great. Indeed. It's what Literacy is all about. Keep it up.

Regards,

Kalyan BanerjeeChief Advisor,Rotary India Literacy Mission

Only if we are able to analyze and address its root causes, we may be able to find a solution to this problem; I take this opportunity to reflect on a few of them.

The most prominent is possibly the issue of economics: not just the cost of studying, but the opportunity cost it represents – in terms of the class hours that might otherwise we spent in earning, even though child labour is illegal in the country. Awareness programmes involving the family members of the children would be able to address this issue, especially if they focus on the possibility of higher rates of return from an investment in education – not just, but also, in monetary terms. Even children from privileged families often have to be sent to school against their wishes, so we cannot ignore the importance of the role of the family members in ensuring continued attendance – they need to be convinced of the significance and gainfulness of education. Obviously, the other intervention to address this issue would be direct financial assistance to the students.

The other significant issue would be of poor performance, leading to subsequent withdrawal. Many children are first generation literates, and they most likely do not have a support system at home, which would enable them to cultivate the things learnt at class. With focussed, extra tutoring, it may be expected that the poor performers would be able to match up with their peers, and a few instances of satisfactory performance at class would eventually help them regain self-confidence.

The next issue would be of dismal surroundings and lack of infrastructure, which makes school an unpleasant experience. Providing for class furniture, electrical fittings, books, teaching aids, and proper toilets would be some of the significant interventions in ameliorating this condition.

The fourth issue, often overlooked, is the quality of education being imparted at class. The objective of school is to educate the young minds, and, in spite of all other favourable circumstances, if the activities at class do not capture the imagination of the students – if they find the content as boring and purposeless, or the communication as unintelligible – the objective is bound to fail. In other words, one may motivate school dropouts to return to school, coach them to keep up with their peers, and provide amenities to make the visit comfortable, but what would eventually continue to keep them there is what happens at class. This indicates the importance of two necessary interventions: crafting curricula and its content, and teacher training programmes to ensure proper pedagogic processes.

Rajani Mukerji

Past District Governor (2013-14), D-3291

Joint Secretary, RILM

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To view your Asha Kiran… Child

More than 32,000 children are enrolled in the centre for Asha Kiran

the bridge course. These children are in process to get back to school. Each of them are tagged with 32,000 donors. You can now view your sponsored child with just 'ONE CLICK'.

Have you seen you sponsored child yet? If not then then download the T-E-A-C-H App today and reach your sponsored child with just 'ONE CLICK’

Simple Steps to download the T-E-A-C-H App

In the TEACH app menu go to ‘My Asha Kiran’ and just with ONE CLICK on it, you will be able to view you Sponsored child and you will also be able to view his/her detailed report.

Did you know?

1. 32,000 children are enrolled in the program

2. Of these more than 10,000 children have been mainstreamed in Government schools

3. You can view the child you have sponsored with just ONE click !

Each of the approximately 32,000 Donors has been tagged for long now

Go to Play store

Search for 'TEACH by RILM'

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Rotary Thane Hills, Rotary Interna�onal District 3142 launched a unique project by providing Assis�ve Technology to schools through Non- Braille Computers for visually impaired students.

Praga� Andha Vidyalaya, Badlapur has been working in the field of educa�on and rehabilita�on of blinds for the last 45 years. Besides formal educa�on the blind students are also imparted voca�onal training.

Triumph Founda�on of Rotary Club Thane Hills provided them with assis�ve technology infrastructure under the Virtual Eye Program. This program helps both blind and par�ally blind students to learn computer programs effec�vely.

The so�ware helps students to type faster and the language so�ware in Hindi, Marathi and English has helped the students.

Besides providing this Hardware and So�ware Tools Virtual Eye Program has also conducted training of our teachers on how to use these tools for effec�ve educa�on. The teachers were trained for 3 days, 4 teachers and 82 students are benefi�ng from this program.

The students at the school, Praga� Andha Vidhyalaya were extremely happy when they got the opportunity to use the Non-Braille computers.

It was a great moment seeing those children happy.

Virtual Eye aims to bring out hidden and poten�al talents of the children to showcase their strengths despite the challenge they face. The project aims to mo�vate and encourage various companies and ins�tu�ons across India.

Pragati Andha Vidyalaya says Hello to Non-Braille Computers

Computers provide virtual eye to the visually impairedchildren in 400 blind schools across India

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Looking back at theProductive Year 2016-17

As another Rotary and Inner Wheel year draws to a close, 2016-17 has been quite a produc�ve year. It is year of great sa�sfac�on. Rotary India Literacy Mission want to thank you all for your support to the T-E-A-C-H program and RILM. Iwe can be very much assured that not many other organisa�ons achieve so much within such a short span of �me, as we did in the last year..

RILM on the other hand has been like the beehive. We have been working from one de4adline to the other with missionary zeal in planning the program, dissemina�ng the informa�on, providing training, structuring process, crea�ng buzz, communica�ong and ensuring implementa�on.

Let’s take a look back at the RILM’s incredible year 2016-17. The last year had been very strong for T-E-A-C-H with plethora of events happening across India.

Some of the major highlights of RILM men�oned below:

| Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modi's support for the T-E-A-C-1

H program. A Na�onal Level Conference was held on Literacy and | 2

Wash in School by Rotary Nepal Literacy Mission. T-E-A-C-H App | 3

developed during the Interna�onal Literacy Day and was inaugurated at

Rotary Ins�tute at Dubai by RIPE Sam Owori. Rotary India Literacy | 4

Mission celebrates Interna�onal Literacy Day and for the first �mes

RILM was trending on Social Media. Rotarians/Inner Wheel members

across the country par�cipated in the event. Commitments and pledges

poured in making it one of the memorable day of the year. RILM's | 5

news was carried by whooping 175 newspapers across the country in

many vernacular languages. Sri Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble | 6

Educa�on Minister of India launched the crea�on of 5,000 libraries

across India with RILM on the Interna�onal Literacy Day Leander | 7

Paes, Interna�onal Tennis Player join hands with RILM. Rotary | 8

Prime�Minister�Narendra�Modi’sSupport�for�T-E-A-C-H�Program

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South Asia Literacy Summit a huge success with names like Mr.Kailash

Satyrathi, Noble Laureate, Prakash Javadekar, Educa�on Minister of

India, Neerja Birla, Chairman, MPower Founda�on and Mr. Shigeru

Aoyagi, Director and UNESCO Representa�ve and many more as the

chief guests. Ride for Literacy – T-E-A-C-H supporters across India | 9

rides miles across the na�on and also crosses Interna�onal boundaries

to spread awareness on T-E-A-C-H. Literacy Hero Awards – We | 10

had received 155 applica�ons across India and 7,503,475 million votes

casted. Various partnerships like UNESCO, Maharashtra Govt., | 11

CII, Loomba Founda�on, Ek Step and many more were forged this year

| Support from Celebrity and Ministers for T-E-A-C-H poured in 12

during Interna�onal Literacy Day Dive for Literacy Hands | |13 14

on service for TEACH by 18 Rotarians represen�ng 13 Rotary

Interna�onal Districts, 8 States, from New Hampshire to Florida.

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The total applications

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Level Rotary / IW Star Club Super Star Club Mega Star Club Supreme Star Club

Na�on Builder Awards

Rotary 5 Schools 10 Schools 15 Schools 25 Schools

Inner Wheel 3 Schools 6 Schools 9 Schools 15 Schools

Teacher Support

Rotary 30 Teachers 60 Teachers 90 Teachers 150 Teachers

Inner Wheel 30 Teachers 60 Teachers 90 Teachers 150 Teachers

E-learning Rotary 5 Centers 10 Centers 15 Centers 50 Centers

Inner Wheel 3 Centers 6 Centers 9 Centers 15 Centers

Adult Literacy Rotary 50 Adults 100 Adults 150 Adults 300 Adults

Inner Wheel 50 Adults 100 Adults 150 Adults 300 Adults

Child Development

Rotary Equal to club membership

3 �mes the club membership

5 �mes the club membership

10 �mes the club membership

Inner Wheel Equal to club membership

2 �mes the club membership

3 �mes the club membership

5 �mes the club membership

Happy School Rotary 1 school 3 schools 5 schools 10 schools

Inner Wheel 1 school 3 schools 5 schools 10 schools

Level Rotary / IW Star District Super Star Dist Mega Star Dist Supreme Star Dist

Teacher Support

Rotary 150 Teachers 300 Teachers 450 Teachers 750 Teachers

Inner Wheel 100 Teachers 150 Teachers 250 Teachers 450 Teachers

E-learning Rotary 100 Centres 200 Centers 400 Centers 1,000 Centers

Inner Wheel 50 Centres 100 Centers 200 Centers 500 Centers

Adult Literacy Rotary 1,000 Adults 2,000 Adults 5,000 Adults 10,000 Adults

Inner Wheel 1,000 Adults 2,000 Adults 5,000 Adults 10,000 Adults

Child Development

Rotary 1,000 Children 1,500 Children 3,000 Children None

Inner Wheel 50% 100% 150% 300%

Happy School Rotary 25 Schools 50 Schools 100 Schools 200 Schools

Inner Wheel 15 Schools 30 Schools 60 Schools 125 Schools

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Glimpse of T-E-A-C-H program in 2016-17

Happy School

Adult Literacy

The Program tries to improve the professional abili�es and performances of teachers through training, recogni�on to outstanding teachers and supplemen�ng the efforts of teachers through volunteer teachers in schools.

As of June 2017:

Ÿ Around 16,470 teachers were trained

Ÿ Over 7,329 teachers recognized with the 'Na�on Builder Awards'.

The program aims at improving the quality of teaching and learning through the use of curriculum based audio visual modules in local languages.

As of June 2017:

Ÿ 11,962 E-learning centers already started

Ÿ More than 2,50,000 children are benefi�ng from this project.

The program seeks to impart func�onal literacy to non-literate adults above the age of 15 and subsequently engage young literate adults in skill development training.

As of June 2017:

Ÿ 73,271 adults have been made literate through the Diksha (One to one approach) and Swabhimaan (Adult Literacy Centres) program.

The program aims to provide/upgrade the infrastructural and co-scholas�c facili�es in schools to make them secure and happy learning places for students.

As of June 2017:

Ÿ 1498 government/government-aided primary schools have been transformed into Happy Schools.

Teacher Support

E-learning

Happy School by Rotary Club of Hosur Midtown

Teacher Training, RC Bharuch, RID 3060

E-learning classroom in RID 3250

Adult learners studying at aSwabhimaan Centre

The program is also known as the Asha

Kiran… a ray of hope is to send out-of-

school children back to schools. The objec�ve is to mainstream these children to state funded primary/elementary schools.

As of June 2017:

Ÿ RILM has currently entered into an agreement with 32 NGOs spread over 15 states and preparing 32,218 children to be sent back to school.

Ÿ Out of 32,218 out of school children 9 , 1 5 6 c h i l d r e n a l r e a d y mainstreamed into government schools.

Ÿ Now you can view your sponsored child with just one click.

Ÿ Download the T-E-A-C-H App from Play Store / App Store today.

Child Development

Children at an Asha Kiran Centre

Children studying at anAsha Kiran Centre

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30,000 Indian widows to re-write the stories of their lives

100 HappySchoolby RotaryClub of Bangalore

RC Bangalore aimed to celebrate 100th years of Rotary Founda�on by crea�ng 100 Happy School. Their key priority was to build a ‘Be�er World-One Student at a Time’ with a focus on skills and con�nuous improvement within the educa�on sector. Government schools in the vicinity of Bangalore were being iden�fied to modify and increase the number of students a�ending primary schools from disadvantaged areas. The project was officially inaugurated at MAF Rotary Govt primary school at Harokethanahalli on November 27, 2016.

Crea�ng Happy Schools is indeed a panacea to the rural literacy scenario. The malady of dropouts is as concerning as not enrolling in the schooling system,' says Rtn. President Ranga Rao. 'Since

Karnataka is among the highest children enrolling state, a lot of work needs to be done' he further added. At present 100 schools have been transformed into Happy Schools with an average cost of Rs. 400,000/- per school

There was a great CSR support for Rotary Club of Bangalore to take this third ambi�ous project ahead, 70% of the total funds required was raised internally through the generosity of the members and balance 30% were raised through corporates, friends and well wishers of the community. The endeavor was to take up 100 schools and make them and the surrounding villages happy. It impacted over 100,000 people. In the second stage, RCB would train the teachers to stay mo�vated and in energizing the children. The third stage would be to create model Schools.

Rotary India Literacy Mission has joined hands in partnership with The Loomba Founda�on to work with 30,000 widows in India. According to a report published by World Economic Forum, India is currently home to an es�mated 46 million widows, most of whom live a life marked by social s�gma and economic discrimina�on. This leaves a devasta�ng impact on the lives of their children as well, who o�en drop out of school and are forced into child labour. This partnership will work towards providing necessary literacy and livelihood skills to the widows to enable them to live a life of dignity. The project will also send 2000 children of these widows, who have dropped out of school or never been to school, back to school.

This project will primarily be executed through global grants of The Rotary Founda�on. The Chief Advisor of RILM and The Trustee Chair of The Rotary Founda�on will be signing the final agreement with The

Loomba Founda�on at London on the 23rd June, celebrated worldwide as Interna�onal Widow's Day. Living the very spirit of The Rotary Founda�on, of 'providing service to

others' and 'advancing world understanding, goodwill and peace through the fellowship of community leaders', this project is the beginning of a beau�ful journey, that RILM and The Loomba Founda�on has set foot on.

The two partners will work hand in hand to help the widows re-write their own future.

This project will primarily be executed though global grants. The focus states for the

first phase of implementa�on are Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Rotary Districts/Clubs from these states are going to apply for a global grant to implement this project. T h e i n t e r e s t e d R o t a r y Districts/Clubs will work closely with the skill training partners to iden�fy the beneficiaries. Upon approval of the global grant. the implemen�ng agency with start with the training. Post training, all t h e b e n efi c i a r i e s e i t h e r b e provided with a job opportunity or supported to start their own small scale business. Some of the skill the

women will be provided training are, tailoring, beau�cian, jewelry making, handicra� making, poultry farming, etc. Post placement support will be provided through a follow up system.

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PRIP Kalyan Banerjee signing MoU with Loomba Foundation

One of the School transformed into Happy School by RC Bangalore, RID 3190

Teacher Support 2016-17

© Teacher training conducted by R1 Dist. 2982 and RI Dist. 3060 with RILM iden�fied partners: Bri�sh Council and Macmillan Educa�on.

Training by Bri�sh Council

Rotary India Literacy Mission entered into an MoU with Bri�sh Council, Tamil Nadu to sharpen the core kills of 100 teachers in the state. RC Salem West guided by Zonal Literacy Coordinator N. Asoka organized a teacher training program with 115 teachers. The ini�al phase of the training took place for 3 days in the month of July and the final phase took place in the month of November. The core skills on which the teachers were trained are:

a. Cri�cal Thinking and Problem Solving

b. Crea�vity and Imagina�on

Training by Macmillan Educa�on

Rotary India Literacy Mission forged a partnership with Macmillan for training teachers. A Teachers Training Workshop by Macmillan Publishers Pvt. Ltd. was organized by RC Bharuch, RI Dist. 3060 l e d b y R I L M Te a c h e r S u p p o r t

Commi�ee Chairman PDG Devang Thakore and supported by Shri S'ad Vidya Mandal – Bharuch. A total of 70 teachers were trained in this 2 day workshop

The 2 days' workshop had two parallel sessions run on the two topics offered by Macmillan. The session went on for 5 hour covering topics like LIFE SKILLS and CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

© RI Dist. 3131 signs an MoU with the Zilla Parishad to train 10,000 teachers.

Led by District Literacy Commi�ee Chair Vaishali Bhagwat, RI Dist. 3131 signed an MoU with the Zilla Parishad to train 10,000 teachers on topics such as classroom management, crea�ve thinking, teaching skills and personality development and communica�on skills.

The dura�on of each training is 8 hours. The Zilla Parishad as per the MOU with RID 3131 makes available the venue for the teachers for one training program. The educa�on officer of that par�cular Taluka / Block co-ordinates with Teacher Support District Chair Rtn. Mamta and conveys the venue, etc. Several Rotary clubs have expressed interest in par�cipa�ng in this program and once the Taluka is known , the local club is contacted to host the program. Some programs are done jointly by rural and urban clubs in synergy.

© RI Dist. 3160 conducts teacher training for over 3,000 teachers.

Under the able leadership of Teacher Support District Chair B.E Rangaswamy almost all clubs in RI Dist. 3160

conducted teacher training programs and have together successfully trained 3000 teachers. The focus of the training was on improving the skills of the government school teachers on teach ing sub jects l i ke sc ience , mathema�cs and English. With this in mind, they shortlisted the trainers and conducted 2 days training for teachers.

© New partnerships forged under TEACHER SUPPORT in RY 2016-17:

a) Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry has agreed to provide teacher training for Rotary India Literacy Mission. Royal Society of Chemistry that aims to enhance the skills and knowledge of Indian science teachers. They have agreed to provide the following:

1) 2 day Teacher training for science teachers

2) 3 resource materials for the teachers who undertake the training.

3) Cer�ficates to all the teachers who a�end the training

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The aforemen�oned services will be provided free of cost. The remunera�on and travel of the Teacher Developer who will take up the training will also be borne by RSC.

In turn, the Rotary Clubs will have to take care of the local hospitality of the tra iners inc luding food, a c c o m m o d a � o n a n d l o c a l conveyance.

b) Indian Career Educa�on and Development Council

R I L M h a s e n t e r e d i n t o a n agreement with Indian Career Educa�on and Development C ounc i l ( I C E D C ) and G loba l Educa�on Solu�ons (GES), who will provide teacher training and also equip the teachers with an online module which is a comprehensive inclusive career educa�on module having self assessment, goal se�ng tools along with details of lesson planning, classroom ac�vi�es, labour market informa�on.

This MoU is for the state of Maharashtra in the schools where e-learning interven�on will be done by RILM.

c) Learning Links Founda�on

Rotary India Literacy Mission signed an agreement with Learning Links F o u n d a � o n ( L L F ) o n 1 0 t h December 2016 for t ra in ing teachers all over India. The training session will be for 5 days covering the following categories:

Ÿ Subject Enrichment Ÿ Classroom Management Ÿ Assessment in the class Ÿ Classroom Transac�on

d) Aspiring Persona

RILM has forged a new partnership with Aspiring Persona, who will provide training to teachers on the following topics:

Ÿ Team Building

Ÿ Mo�va�on

· Time Management

· Leadership

· Percep�on & A�tude Building

Each of the above topics will be covered in one day. Rotary and Inner Clubs are encouraged to take up at least 2 days of training with Aspiring Persona.They will mostly focus on teacher trainings in West Bengal. However, in other areas also they can provide training if their travel and accommoda�on is taken care of by the Club.

e) Zeal Educa�on Trust

R I L M h a s e n t e r e d i n t o a n agreement with Zeal Educa�on Trust , a leading educa�onal consultancy working in Science, Maths and IT educa�on. Their innova�ve “Third Way” workshops for teachers, student workshops, CSR programs and science and maths kits are very popular all over the country. They have agreed to provide one day tra ining to government school teachers.

© Huge success in Na�on Builder Awards

As a result of the proac�ve efforts by all the districts we have felicitated more than 2600 outstanding teachers. The list of star clubs has exceeded 100 for b o t h Ro t a r y a n d I n n e r W h e e l individually. This is indeed a remarkable

achievement as more than 90% of the par�cipa�ng clubs have conducted proper evalua�ons as per RILM guidelines before giving away the award. This would not have been possible without the able leadership and guidance of the Governors, the DLCCs as well as the Teacher Support District Chairs.

© 800 school survey completed

A school survey campaign was launched in the month of February and within months Rotarians and Inner Wheel members joined hands and completed over 800 school survey and uploaded all the required details in the online form present on our website.

E-learning 2016-17

a) SBI Founda�on

SBIF joined hands with RILM for Digital Classrooms in Government and Government aided schools to provide Quality Educa�on for underprivileged children through audio visual learning. Ini�ally sample project would be executed in 3 states (Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana) followed by a pilot project of 310 schools in 4 states ( K a r n a t a k a , M a h a r a s h t r a , Telangana and U�ar Pradesh).

b) Department of School Educa�on, Government of Maharashtra

DSE of GoM joined hands with RILM for establishing e learning facility in 18,510 government/government aided school in the state of Maharashtra PPP model. Each school will have 2 E-learning facili�es in which one will be installed by the respec�ve schools and the other will be from RILM.

2,500 outstanding teachers felicitated with Nation Builder Award by RC Pinjore Hills & IWC Kalka Hills

MoU between TATA Technologies & RC Poona North

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Ÿ Three MoUs were signed between Tata Technologies and Rotary India Literacy Mission for the flagship of Rotary distant E-learning project of RI Dist.3131.The MoUs were signed to install E-learning faci l i�es in 188 government and government-aided school in the district of Poona and also to install E-l e a r n i n g fa c i l i � e s i n 8 0 government and government-aided school in Ahmedabad. The three collabora�ons were worth of Rs.1.60 crores. ((Lit Times November))

Ÿ Rotary India Literacy Mission came into an agreement with the Triumph Founda�on to establish virtual e-learning centers in 410 schools in India.

Ÿ Rotary India Literacy Mission joined hands with EkStep to leverage EkStep Learning pla�orm/portal which can be used by Rotary India Literacy Mission and its partners to access the repository of Knowledge built by Ekstep. ((Lit Times April))

Adult Literacy 2016-17

© 10 Adult Literacy Centres started by District 3080

District 3080, under the chairmanship of PDG Manpreet Singh Gandhoke and guidance of Assistant Governor Vivek Minocha, started 11 literacy centres in the District. With an aim to reach out to 10,000 adult non-literates, RC Saharanpur Central, RC Saharanpur Con�nenta l and RC Saharanpur South collaborated with local schools, colleges and NGOs.

© S w a b h i m a a n t h r o u g h N G O partnership piloted

In order to reach out to more number of adults through the Adult Literacy program, RILM decided to implement Swabhimaan in partnership with various NGOs working at grass-root level in the field of educa�on and skill development. To test out this prospect, RILM did a pilot in West Bengal in the month of January. The literacy course was designed to impart func�onal literacy to the non-literate adults over a period of four months through a trained teacher. Two NGOs were iden�fied to implement the project.

1. Sitarampur Vivekananda Seba Pra�sthan

2. Agradut Pally Unnayan

Al l the learners enthusias�cal ly a�ended the classes at the Swabhimaan Centre under the guidance of the trained teachers. All of them appeared for the NIOS examina�on in March and are awai�ng their results now.

New partnerships forged under ADULT LITERACYin RY 2016-17:

The Loomba Founda�on

RILM joined hands with The Loomba Founda�on to iden�fy and support 30,000 widows, single mothers and unmarried daughters of widows in India, 1000 in each state, over five years, by training them on different skills and suppor�ng them to a�ain sustainable means of l ive l ihood. This sk i l l development project will primarily be executed through global grants and implemented in partnership with organiza�ons which provide skil l development training.

LabourNet

RILM partnered with Labournet to provide skill development training to 8000 women across 8 states in India.

Child Development 2016-17

12,640 children more under the Asha Kiran… a ray of hope!

© The first Asha Kiran centre of RID 3080 was launched by PRIP Rajendra K Saboo on the Na�onal Educa�on Day for 1,000 out-of-school children of Snehalaya, an orphanage, run in collabora�on with Vatsal Chaya Trust. The members of RC and IWC Chandigarh screened the children of the Trust.

© Next collabora�on was with Chari�es Aid Founda�on India to cover RI Districts 3012, 3040, 3051, 3053, 3261 and 3262, comprising the States of Delhi, Cha�sgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, benefi�ng 10,000 children.

© The Shrima� Pushpawa� Loomba Memorial Founda�on came into an agreement with Rotary India Literacy Mission to send back 2,000 children back to school.

© 540 children will also be sent back to school in collabora�on with Awareness Training and Mo�va�on for Ac�on in District 3052.

© A collabora�on with Adarsh Shisksha Sami� will send 500 children back to schools in Udaipur, Rajasthan

CEO of EkStep Foundation Shankar Maruwadawith RILM Chair Shekhar Mehta

Adult Learners writing test at Swabhiman Centers,Sitarampur, RID 3291

RID 3080 launches it’s first Asha Kiran Centreby RILM Patron PRIP Raja Saboo

Atul Palta, Director, The Loomba Foundation,with RILM Vice Chair Kamal Sanghvi.

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Dear Fellow members,

Warm Inner Wheel Greetings!

The wheel is ready to turn, a time to assess the past and plan for the future.

Where there is Inner Wheel there is a way is my conclusion of the year gone by. Every club in India has worked sincerely, enthusiastically to create Happier Futures, Better lives!

To make India Totally Literate with Quality Education , you have worked very hard with great impact on society through the TEACH programme. The T-E-A-C-H mission received great fillip in 2016-17 from I support . More than 2,500 NBA given , 3,000 plus Asha Kiran sponsored, Several Adult literacy and learning centres set up and about 800 Happy Schools made in the last year , the last being our thrust area.

The Literacy week campaign conceptualised by RILM was successfully executed due to the immense enthusiasm and commitment of our members. By showcasing our work well on

media and social media support from the community too has been garnered .Happy schools have been inaugurated by Governor of Nagaland ,MLAs, local leaders and dignitaries. Such support will give the programme a great boost and greater success in the coming year!

I congratulate each of my fellow members for their commitment and passion to touch hearts .Kudos! Very well done! I congratulate leaders of every club and District, it is because of you that we could do such service.

My best wishes to the new office bearers at all levels, for a wonderful year.

Let's continue to walk the path of Friendship and service!

Enjoy Inner Wheel

Warm Regards,

Prabha RaghunandaImmediate Past Association PresidentInner Wheel Clubs in India

Message�from�IPAPLeave a lasting Legacy

IIW Theme 2017-18

Happy School 2016-17

© Ratnanidhi Charitable Trust inked a deal with Rotary India Literacy Mission at Rotary South Asia Literacy Summit held in Chennai to establish 10,000 libraries all over India by way of collec�ng used books and their d istr ibu�on to government/ government a ided schools.

© The confedera�on of Indian Industries joined hands with Rotary India Literacy Mission to install standardized sports facili�es in 50,000 schools as per the

models suggested by CSC and ensures that such facili�es are run by trained teachers or service providers CII.

© 8 Happy Schools at one Go- Inner Club of Vijaywada Mid Town, Vijaywada East and Eluru, took up a great ini�a�ve to convert 8 government schools into Happy school.

© Rotary Club of Bangalore launches 100 Happy Schools on the 100th year of Rotary Founda�on.

Classroom

AfterBefore

© An MoU with Lutheran World Service India Trust is set to send 600 children back to school in Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha.

© Food Security Founda�on India has decided to collaborate with Rotary India Literacy Mission to provide 1 million meals to children primarily through Asha Kiran centres and schools.

© Rotary India Literacy Mission had signed an MoU with NGO Marfat to send 650 children of Dhuliyan and Shamshergunj of Murshidabad district back to school.

CEO, Labour Net Gayatri Vasudevan with PRIP Raja Saboo.

Before & after picture of PUM School which was transform into Happy School