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The Azim Premji Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 2001 with a vision of achieving quality universal education to create a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. The Foundation works to pilot programs and develop concepts in elementary education that could enable systemic change in India's 1.3 million government-run schools, focusing on rural areas where most schools are located. A brief summary shows that after 60 years of independence, literacy is only 65% and enrollment and completion rates remain low, especially for girls and disadvantaged groups. The Foundation's guiding principles are to focus on improving quality in rural government schools, enable systemic change, partner with governments, implement projects directly, and invest in building organizational capabilities.

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Vision

The Azim Premji Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 2001 with a vision of achieving quality universal education to create a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. The Foundation works to pilot programs and develop concepts in elementary education that could enable systemic change in India's 1.3 million government-run schools, focusing on rural areas where most schools are located. A brief summary shows that after 60 years of independence, literacy is only 65% and enrollment and completion rates remain low, especially for girls and disadvantaged groups. The Foundation's guiding principles are to focus on improving quality in rural government schools, enable systemic change, partner with governments, implement projects directly, and invest in building organizational capabilities.

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Vision

Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, operational since 2001, with a vision to significantly contribute to achieve quality
universal education that facilitates a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society".

The Foundation works in the area of elementary education to pilot and develop 'proofs of
concept' that have a potential for systemic change in India's 1.3 million government-run schools.
The Foundation focuses on working in rural areas where the majority of these schools exist. The
choice to work with elementary education (Class I to VIII) in rural government-run schools
follows from evidence of educational attainment in India, a summary of which is presented
below.

A brief summary of India's education status, after 60 years of independence:

 Literacy: 65.38% (Male 75.85%, Female 54.16%) – average world literacy 80%

 Children reaching grade V: 59.8 %(2000/01)

 Gross Enrolment Ratio girls (Class 6-8): 56%

 Human Development Index ranking: 126/177 (2006)

 Only 31% of children complete education upto 10th standard and 42% complete upto 8th

standard

 One out of three (67 lacs out of 1.92 crore) children in class 5 is unable to read and write

 Only about 10% primary schools have majority of children learning as per expectations

 More than 75% schools have unplanned multigrade teaching

 Public examinations of all kind focus on rote learning - with practically no focus on

application, analysis, critical thinking and creativity

 20 percentage point adverse ratios of literacy and drop outs for girls & socio-

economically disadvantaged children

Our guiding principles

 Focus on "quality of education in rural government elementary schools"

 Contribute to systemic change and not merely create islands of excellence


 Partner with Government(s) in quality initiatives

 Implement – not just fund projects

 Significantly invest in people resources and continuously build capability within the

organization to work on quality initiatives

Currently we have a team of 200 professionals associated with us, in addition to several hundred
paid volunteers in the field.

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