Dr. Ashish, Mrs. Puja, and their staff are always coming up with new ways to keep the kids enthusiastic and engaged in their studies.

In January they organized a small ceremony where they awarded the top 4 students, based on attendance and monthly test results, with a prize. Keep up with your reading assignments kids!

Also in January, eight older girls in the literacy program went on a field trip.  The Kutumb program calls these outings “exposure visits”, because they expose students to real-life situations where they can practice and apply their new literacy skills.  On this exposure visit, the students went to the Varanasi Railway Station.  They used their developing reading skills to learn how to buy a train ticket, how to recognize the right train, and how to find their seat number.  Imagine how scary it would be for a young girl (or boy) in a big city to attempt this without being able to read.  This is a wonderful example of the type of life-enriching skills the Kutumb Literacy Program offers their students.