Dear ILP well wishers, donors, volunteers and friends,
We hope you had a relaxing summer and are looking forward to a beautiful fall and joyous holiday season. Over the summer our volunteer team members visited ILP’s projects in India and participated in events to spread ILP’s message here while also lending a helping hand in project activities across India.
In the last issue of our Beacon we directed your attention to all our endeavors through the last couple of decades to bring literacy to millions of children from preschool through college.
In this issue we want to introduce the concept of an effective evaluation system that we want to measure ourselves against.
Introduction to ILP’s Metrics and Evaluation System
By Subhash Pochareddy
ILP drives a wide array of efforts to enable children’s education from preschool to high school and beyond. In an effort to quantify our efforts ILP has designed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that provide objective and real-time view of progress to us, and to our NGO partners. These KPIs help ILP to objectively evaluate the impact that we are making to improve the schooling, learning outcomes, and to provide career guidance and more.
ILP Relay – A Tale of Passion and Endurance
By Malini Nagarajan
This May, ILP continued it’s two decade long association with the Golden Gate Relay.The event which is organized by Organs R Us for promoting the noble cause of organ donation, provides ILP a major platform for fundraising where we strive to raise around 250K USD every year. ILP is grateful to have an army of passionate volunteers who block out their weekends to train and participate for the relay, and undertake the management of logistics involved in making this event a success.
Valuing Children’s Perspectives and Participation
By Suchitra Rao
ILP joined forces with four other NGO’s to facilitate children’s involvement in providing suggestions for Karnataka state government's new act on child safety at schools. The suggestions included a zero tolerance policy against bullying and sexual abuse, placement of suggestion boxes for children to put forth proposals under anonymity, and involvement of senior students in Children Protection Committees. ILP is committed in generating awareness amongst children regarding their rights and responsibilities; they are not citizens of tomorrow but are very much the citizens of today and their issues should have an active representation in the agenda of all policymakers.
A Trip to Educate and Get Educated
A visit report by ILP Volunteer, Divya Chinnappa
ILP volunteer Divya Channappa visited ILP projects this summer. Watch a video about her eye opening experience during her visit and read about it in this article.
ILP in the News!
Hyderabad….NGO Boosting Literacy Levels in the City of Rajendernagar!
Career guidance in high schools.
India Literacy Project conducted its third-phase career guidance program to enable the students to make informed career choices!
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Upcoming Events
- Mark your calendars Annual ILP Dinner 9th Nov 2019!We are excited to invite you to our Annual ILP dinner.
Beside sending them to school, we have made learning a joy for this children through our special learning initiatives which includes libraries, smart classrooms, science/math kits etc. Please RSVP at http://www.ilpnet.org/ilpdinner/rsvp
We would love to hear from you. Give us your feedback by simply replying back to this email. Let us know what you would like to hear about from the ILP Team. You can also contact us at ilp@ilpnet.org.
Best,
ILP Newsletter Team – Minnie Uppuluri, Nidhi Rai and Suyash Nigam
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