TOPIC: Pratham NC "REACH"

Pratham
Founded in 1994 as a UNICEF initiative, Pratham is a grassroots, non-profit organization that helps underprevileged children in India with pre-school and primary education.
With over 10,000 employees, part-time grassroots teachers and volunteers, Pratham is one of the largest educational organizations in the world. Pratham's direct programs are active in 21 Indian states.
Since 1994, Pratham's direct programs have helped more than 2 million children across 50 cities and 2000 villages. Pratham works with the government, parents, communities and industry to ensure that children have access to quality education resources.
Pratham is committed to creating a large-scale change and its mission is: "Every child in school and learning well."

Pratham USA
Pratham USA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports Pratham's critical work in India. Pratham USA has a large and growing volunteer base, with active chapters in many states.

Mission:
To help Pratham achieve its goal of "Every child in school and learning well" by raising awareness and funds.
Vision:
* Be the unifying movement which connects the Indo- American Community in USA to the cause of a literate India.
* Mobilize broad individual, foundations and corporate support to ensure Pratham's success in India as part of the Global Millennium Development Goals

Pratham NC
Pratham NC was launched in 2005 by a group of like minded families from North Carolina as a Chapter of Pratham USA.
The key goal of Pratham NC is to raise awareness of the problems in the area of Education of the underprivileged children in India and to raise funds for the revolutionary work being done by Pratham in India. Pratham NC Chapter is 4 years old and has raised over $500K since its inception.
The Members
Advisory Board: Himanshu Shah, Sudha & Satpal Rathie, Sajjan Agarwal
President: Om Dhingra
Vice President: Gunvant Bhakta
SC Members: Arun & Rashmi Shukla, Chaya & Sridhar Rao, Chithra & Ramesh Mahalingam, Gunvant & Aneeta Bhakta, Lavanya Sridharan, Om & Sudha Dhingra, Parul Shah & Punit Chhabra

Pratham NC "REACH"
The program was held on Sunday, May 17th, 4:00 p.m. at Green Hope High School, Cary, NC
Pratham NC “REACH", featured for the first time in the Triangle, a performing arts extravaganza by the diverse volunteers from the community.
"REACH” is about the community going the extra mile to support a cause which will make a big difference in the lives of people less privileged than us. The proceeds of the event would support Pratham India’s “Read India Campaign” which provides quality education to underprivileged children all over India.

The Pratham Utsav began by taking the audience on a journey through a town (Vidhyanagari in Northern India) of talented residents who told a story of their passion for fine arts and how the folks of the town were inspired by a cause and decided to use their artistic ability to raise funds for that cause.
The diverse volunteers from the community came together for a beautiful evening full of lively story telling, fusion music, vocals, dance, puppet show and an awesome performance by the kids on a medley of songs from the Karadi Rhymes collection.

Pratham NC "REACH" was happy to announce that they raised enough money to sponsor an entire district in Tamil Nadu.

How can you help?
By supporting Pratham, you can give a child the means to escape poverty and exploitation. Your support, no matter how small, will make a big difference. It will ensure that millions of children receive basic reading and math skills. In addition, young women from the villages and slums could be empowered by training them as teachers and thus children who learn to read can continue to read to learn.

For more information about Pratham, visit:
www.prathamusa.org

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Here are few clips of the performances. See how amazing and professionally they were performed.

Here is another great performance. It is fusion Instrumental and vocal.

Kids exhilarating performance.

Here is another video of Pratham Arpanam from Students of Jayanthi Balachandran.

Very good performance by children. I loved to watch the videos again and again. It is so professional and colorful. The stage decoration was excellent. Thanks to ApnaTriangle for providing these videos and I appreciate Pratham for doing such a great work of helping children, educate. Good Luck Pratham for your future programs.

Dear ApnaTriangle Friends.

Navdeep contributed all the pictures of the Pratham - Reach Event. Pritika has put eforts on writing up about Pratham and the Event. Vaani has helped in uploading the videos.

We are proud to have them as volunteers and being part of Apnatriangle.

Navdeep/Pritika/Vaani,

I would like to personally thank you for your great efforts and contribution. It would have not been successful without you guys. Thanks for all that you do for ApnaTriangle.

Another clip of Vocal music.. Radha Sametha Krishna.

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Puppet show picture..

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Another picture from puppet show..

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