Education in the primary schools in India is presently facing tremendous crisis. Surprisingly access to schools or primary education is not the actual problem. In fact more than 95% of the children in India actually go to schools. It is because of the poor teaching quality and learning levels that learning is not taking place in the schools. The 2007 national survey on education, which AID India participated in, has shown that 50% of the children in fifth standard in the schools in India are unable to read simple stories or do simple division problems!

Eureka Child, an AID India initiative, tackles this challenge head on. Over the past decade, the EurekaChild initiative has developed numerous creative learning modules for reading, math and the sciences. In 2006, as part of a Govt supported pilot program, AID India reached out to 450,000 children in 7000 schools across Tamil Nadu. The program met with dramatic success - within 6 months reading ability improved from 50% to 80%!

You are invited to contribute photographs taken by you for our 2009 calendar. Please submit your entries by July 15 2008 to calendar@aidindia.org
Our theme for the 2009 calendar is "ROTI". With this theme we would like to portray the beauty, ingenuity, diversity, and struggle in the field of food today.