L&T Finance joins hands with NGO Pratham to work in the area of providing education in rural towns.
L&T Finance launched their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative - ‘Dnyanarpan’ in Ridhore, a remote village in Nagpur. L&T Finance has associated with an NGO called Pratham for working in the field of providing primary education in rural India. School children from Z.P.U.P School and their parents from Metpanjara village, Nagpur were also present at the launch.
“At L&T Finance we sincerely believe in nurturing the human capital in the organization and the community. Both on its own and as a part of L&T Group, L&T Finance strives to take up corporate social responsibility as an integral activity for the betterment of society, communities, and the environment. We believe that knowledge is an important asset of a human being so contributing in the area of education was more of a gratification,” said Mr Y M. Deosthalee, Chairman & Managing Director, L&T Finance Holdings.
“The main goal of Dnyanarpan will be to ensure spread of basic education in the villages – to ensure that the children truly learn how to read and write in their vernacular language and in the English language, they learn to carry out basic arithmetic and understand the principles of rudimentary science. Also for this we are planning to involve parents, teachers and larger community with intention of engaging them in the learning process. This will not only make them aware of the prevailing learning issues but also go a long way in making the community a part of the solution towards the process of improving learning levels by enhancing the community ownership of the program,” said Ms Farida Lambe Co-founder, Pratham.
Dnyanarpan will conduct learning camps for languages and mathematics, follow-up classes, science fairs & programs. The whole idea behind this is to make learning a fun and interesting process which is missing to a great extent in rural education system today.
