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06Jun 2020 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

India education divide – rural education come to a standstill during lockdown

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[caption id="attachment_942" align="aligncenter" width="840"] zoom session at Z.P School Ghore budruk, Haveli, Pune[/caption] Coronavirus Pandemic has made world come to a standstill. Even though it has been 3 months of lockdown, there is not complete recovery or change of situation. Every industry including education sector has stopped working. Considering that there is no immediate vaccine or treatment in near future, the option we are left with is to face the situation together and find creative and effective solutions. Usually in India the school reopens in June every year after summer holidays. However, considering this Coronavirus pandemic, restarting schools will aggravate the situation. But, on the other hand, keeping schools closed and children locked at home is also not a solution. Already the disruption of examinations and schools has affected children's…

26Apr 2020 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Rural education in India during and post CORONA/COVID-19

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Today, we all are fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, it has costed us human lives, caused economic loss, loss of our freedom, motivation and much more. While every sector/industry is facing losses and challenges due to COVID-19, I am going to discuss about challenges and loss in educational sector especially rural education in this blog. And also open up a dialogue on how to address this challenges. Currently, due to COVID-19, exams are postponed, schools, colleges, universities are closed. In the beginning they were closed without further notice but it was assumed it will be for short period of time. However, looking at the bleak future, where we do not know when will we get cure or vaccine, everybody has started finding solutions in terms continuing classes via digital medium…

04Aug 2019 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Impact Stories of StudyMall- Better rural education in villages

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StudyMall is helping more than 5000 rural children read,learn and do better in studies. StudyMall has reached 33 schools in 33 villages of Maharashtra. While we do have many impact parameters and impact stories, today i would like to share 2 little recent stories about impact of StudyMall. This stories are shared from teachers of our StudyMall project with us. One of our respected and committed teacher is Mr.Prakash Rajput sir who shares his message regarding impact of StudyMall in Z.P.School of Village Murumkhedwadi, Dist Aurangabad as below. He shared his heartfelt thanks with us for sending computer in his small village located in mountains. He shared the joy of happiness that he witnessed on children's faces when they saw the computer in their school. He is one of our…

26Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Story about our supporters-Lets Tute and DHL Express India

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We are happy to share two stories regarding our partner organisation. This two organisations "Lets Tute" and "DHL Express India" have added value to our StudyMall project by adding education infrastructure for rural children in thier school which is interactive content to learn maths in effective manner and computers. One of our StudyMall project in association with partner school at Karad, Dist-Satara received interactive,easy to learn Math books from our support organisation "LetsTute" on 19 July 2018. We have received feedback from children that they are finding it easy to learn and enjoy maths. Teachers are also happy to use this content which makes teaching more easy and effective . Additonaly,happy to share that DHL Express India, has joined us to improve quality of rural education in Gov.Schools in Maharashtra.…

11Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

27th and 28th StudyMall at Palaskheda Murthad and Zavkheda Thombre village

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09Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

26th StudyMall Launched at village Ambivali, Dist Raigad

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09Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Our founders interaction with “Mitti Ke Rang”

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Our founder Mr.Santosh Phad had an opportunity to provide insigths regarding working in and for an "not for profits" or social enterprises at an event organised for team of interns of another social enterprise "Mitti Ke Rang" on 17 Oct 2018 at Mumbai. "Mitti Ke Rang" is an not for profit organisation who are doing excellent work for Advocating & Empowering the lives of 245 Million Widows and Their Children worldwide. You can check there work at https://www.facebook.com/mittikerangofficial Our Founder shared lot of ideas and thoughts regarding various questions the interns had. He also had a chance to learn few things himself from this enthusiastic social activists. Certainly it was an positive meeting that opened a door of collaboration between two organisations working for good of society. You can also become our…

09Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Reading Day celebrated in StudyMall projects

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On 15 Oct 2018, on the occasion of birth anniversary of Dr.A .P.J Abdul Kalam (Former President of India) we celebrated "maharashtra reading day" "वाचन प्रेरणा दिवस" across all our 28 partner schools in Maharashtra. Thinksharp Foundation has established Libraries and Digital classrooms in rural schools of Maharashtra. We are now helping around 5000 rural children in 26 villages of Maharashtra through 28 Studymall projects running in rural schools. Rural children are not always provided with extra curricular books. Having books and libraries is still just a dream for many children, we want to fulfill this dream. Every StudyMall is equipped with library that consists of story books, autobiographical books about leaders, self help books for syllabus subjects such as maths and English and many more other books. We…

03Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Santosh Phad as panelist for MUNIJAN 2018 organised by Mumbai University

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On 02 Oct 2018, Our Founder Mr.Santosh phad was panelist at most esteemed "MUNIJAN 2018", social initiative organised by Mumbai University on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti at Mumbai University Fort campus. Initiative was to promote social entrepreneurship to bring social innovation /ideas to save environment. Students from various management institutes from Mumbai presented their ideas. Students were very professional,passionate about creating healthy environment. It was wonderful intracting with Dr.Smita Shukla (Director ADMI, Mumbai) and Dr.Kavita Laghate (Director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai) and Prof.Abhiraj Shivdas from Mumbai University. MUNIJAN is an initiative taken by the University of Mumbai to embrace the core values of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. It was fully packed summit with attendees such as numerous esteemed educationists from schools, institutes,…

03Nov 2018 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad selected in top 100 social entrepreneurs in India by Action For India !

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Our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad has been selected in top 100 social entrepreneurs by Action For India, AFI Forum 2018 powered by LetsEndorse, the forum was held at Imaginarium, AliGunjan, Alibhag, Maharashtra from 3rd Oct 2018 to 05 oct 2018. The AFI Forum is the annual flagship event of Action For India, bringing 100 hand-picked social innovators together with influencers, Corporate CSR partners, Bureaucrats, Policy Makers, and impact investors to help those entrepreneurs scale their organizations. The Forum aims to benefit social entrepreneurs working in the following six sectors – agriculture, education, energy, healthcare, financial inclusion and livelihoods. It was great platform to share with other fellow social entrepreneurs and know their innovative solutions to solve social problems. Main attraction was insight from Mr.Sam Pitroda through video conference from Chicago. Our…

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