India CSR News Network
MUMBAI: vChalk, an edutech social enterprise has tied up with Impact Guru, a social crowdfunding platform to raise funds of Rs. 3 lakhs to support 1 million children in affordable schools to catch up on basic English and Math skills for learning. vChalk has raised just over Rs. 1 lakh and seeks support from well wishers across the country.
Statistics reveal that in India, millions of children are first generation English learners, who are enrolled in affordable private schools, but cannot read or calculate to learn further. vChalk helps children who are first in their family to learn English and enables someone in the neighbourhood to take after-school classes with proven activities for learning. With their methods, they have seen children improving in less than 45 days.
Through a pilot project that was completed in March this year, vChalk has determined that technology can go a long way to help children acquire the basic skills for learning, and hence they are bringing technology into the classrooms to guide the community facilitators. These facilitators will have access to a mobile application that describes the activities for each group of children to do during the class that day.
vChalk aims to use the funds raised towards classroom planning application development, outreach to more parents who dream better for their children enrolled in budget schools, hiring of locals who speak English to facilitate a vChalk class in a school nearby.
vChalk is brgining about change in how education is imparted today in the country. The funds they seek will enable them to make the application available in classrooms for at least 2,000 children this year.
Impact Guru is a fintech company that offers a full stack crowdfunding solution that combines social or donation crowdfunding, rewards crowdfunding, and investment crowdfunding / fundraising for individuals, non-profits, social enterprises, or start-ups for all their fundraising needs – be it small or large. The company was incubated at Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Initiation Program in USA in 2014 and PACT at Impact Hub in Singapore in 2015. Impact Guru has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and San Francisco.
