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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for taking the time to visit our fund raising page.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Team Members 2011</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Vilas Gadkari, Geeta Gupta, Dav Dau, Malini Mehra, Amit Sanghani, Yogesh Patel, Kourosh Ghassemi, Rebecca Edge, Nina Banihashem, Andrew Spyrou, Oliver Stevenson </strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;">Pratham was seeded in Mumbai in 1994 with </span></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;">a mission to ensure "every child in school and learning well"</span></strong><span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;">. Today the mission has expanded to 21 of India’s 28 states and is the largest non-governmental children's charity working to provide quality education to underprivileged children in rural and urban India.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pratham's flagship program, Read India, aims to improve the reading and basic arithmetic skills of the children in the age group of 6-14 years in rural India. At its peak, in 2008-09, the campaign reached 33 million children across 19 states. It covered 305,000 out of the 600,000 villages of India and mobilized 450,000 volunteers. Over 600,000 teachers/ officials/ government workers have been trained in accelerated learning methodologies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Please dig deep and sponsor our willing triathletes! Your money will make a huge difference in enriching the lives of underprivileged children in India.</span></p>
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