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50M

of students currently in the elementary level have not yet achieved FLN

70%

of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries now in Learning Poverty, unable to read and understand a simple text

This generation of students now risks losing $21 trillion in potential lifetime earnings in present value, or the equivalent of 17% of today’s global GDP

Source: Source: NEP 2020, and World Bank

SOCIAL PROBLEM

Providing quality education to children from under-resourced communities is a huge challenge across India. Imagine being asked to read long paragraphs and tested on it without ever getting the chance to learn the alphabet; or having to solve mathematical equations, without knowing numbers. That is the struggle of 50 million children in India who are in primary grades and have yet to attain basic mastery of literacy and numeracy (Source: National Education Policy, India – 2020).

These deficits, while troubling in themselves, also have compounding effects because without basic skill mastery, students cannot learn from books or other written learning materials, creating a self-perpetuating cycle where the weakest students struggle to catch up and often fall even further behind. As a result, many children leave primary school with such low literacy and math skills that further education, formal employment, and even civic participation are all but impossible.

A key aspect arising from the above-mentioned problem:

Quality early education holds the key to shaping up a country’s future

ThinkZone empowers parents and educators to develop foundational skills of children aged 3 to 10 years by leveraging accessible tech solutions and community-led interventions.

Our mobile app is a one-stop solution to help educators in developing pedagogy and 21st-century skills. We also support at-home learning for children by assisting parents with simple tech tools.

Academic researchers and independent evaluations have validated that our work has resulted in learning gains among children along with improved educators’ skill sets and parental engagement.