READ-Soft Corner

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NGO Name Doorstep / Swadhar / Akshardeep / India sponsorship committee

Contact Name Smita Joshi

Contact Email smita@doorstepschool.org

Software Partner Name Softcorner

Lead Name Arun Kadekodi

Lead Email
arun@soft-corner.com

Project Description

• Group of NGOs run a project called READ, which is used for inculcating and improving reading skills of kids from 1st to 4th grade in schools for the disadvantaged. The two big NGOs in this are Doorstep School and Swadhar. Others are smaller
• For every class 2 teachers (called as Book Fairies) are assigned to conduct these sessions and to evaluate each child during every session.
• Reading skills are divided in 4 grades (starting with letters of the alphabet to actual understanding of complex sentences)
• Book fairies spend hours together after each class noting the progress of each child, after the session
• More than 4 lakh books are available, many of which are also for home lending. Details of home lending are maintained by hand and then entered into an Excel
• Not much time is spent on analysis of factors leading to better reading as book fairies or their supervisors don't have enough time.
• Need a web app (as book fairies from smaller NGOs don't have mobile phones) as well as a mobile app for all this evaluation, tracking and analysis

Success Metrics

• Amount of time spent after class by the book fairies should become close to 0
• Data should be easily available to provide reports to funders
• Easy to use interface to enter in classroom
• Web dashboard for users without mobile
• Tracking of a child moving from one school to another (as many are children of construction workers) or from one NGO to another was not possible. This would become very easy now.

Start Date Jan 19

End Date May 2019

Status In Progress. On time.

Evaluator Name Arjun @ Samanvay

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NGO Rating 4

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