As you all are aware of, our World is going through a once in a generation crisis; namely the COVID 19 pandemic. For a lot of us the past few months have been a significant departure from the lives we once lived. For the
“This Chart gives me HOPE! I always feel I am not capable of doing much, but this session gives me confidence. I never knew there are so many opportunities and courses available”. Somesh[1] resonates the sentiments of the 12 boys of Class X, on the session on Career Guidance by their Counsellor, who
In a previous article, we shared a high level introduction to ILP’s Metrics & Evaluation system that we use to assess the effectiveness of our work. We use two tools to collect most of our data:
We at ILP had such an action-packed and satisfying 2019, that we didn’t even realize that a brand new decade had rolled in! We are most definitely looking forward to marching through the coming decade with our usual zeal and are chuffed to share with you the achievements of our previous year. As
By Sumita Jayaraman & AL Rangarajan
ILP has always focused on a multi-pronged approach to educating children that covers schooling (both enrollment and retention), learning (quality of education) and earning (career guidance and counseling). And additional criterion which we use to identify projects and areas of work is the need-based approach to bring education
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was the year 1989 and we had an impressive visitor from India. The handout for his talk, spoke about the need for action. The speaker was none other than Dr. Parameshwara Rao. Dr. Rao had a simple yet powerful message. He said – if we don’t do anything, by year 2000, every second illiterate in the world will be an Indian! This stirred up a bunch of us and we felt something needed to be done. This led to the formation of ILP in 1990, registered as a non-profit in Chicago, United States. As a first step, we decided to support Dr. Rao’s own organization BCT. Supporting BCT, gave ILP the right background and experience to support many literacy and education projects across India.