December 2021 Newsletter
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Youth using digital tools to develop foundational literacy and numeracy skills in young children
Every year on January 12, India celebrates National Youth Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda who was a strong supporter of education and empowering youth for the development of the country. On National Youth Day, ThinkZone wants to highlight the work of young people in urban Odisha who have been passionately working
Enabling young people to become educational leaders
Satabdee who has been born and brought up in Krushak Bazar slum of Cuttack city is currently pursuing her graduation and also teaching 11 children in her locality. Satabdee, like many young people from the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, is a part of the ThinkZone Fellowship program that trains them to teach young
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November 2021 Newsletter
Children’s Day Celebrations & Boat Making Workshops We celebrated Children’s Day virtually due to school closures. It was wonderful to hear students sharing what they hope to become in the future. We also conducted online paper boat making workshops for children on ‘Kartika Purnima’, which is celebrated to
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October 2021 Newsletter
Google for startups advisor program We are proud to announce that ThinkZone is a part of the Google for Startups Advisor Program: Sustainable Development Goals! As part of the program, we will be working towards using accessible technology solutions in scaling our mission of providing quality learning opportunities for young children and supporting them in
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Learning is like water!
I have been working with ThinkZone for more than two years. And at ThinkZone our aim is to make learning fun and meaningful so that children should not feel burdened. Once I asked our Founder & CEO Binayak Acharya, ‘What do you mean by learning’? He smiled and said ‘Learning is like water’. It took
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September 2021 Newsletter
Global Youth Resiliency Fund Awardee We are excited to share that ThinkZone is one of the recipients of International Youth Foundation’s Global Youth Resiliency Fund. The fund will support 28 young leaders from 15 countries who are responding to the COVID19 crisis & rebuilding their communities. Through the fund, ThinkZone would be expanding its home-based
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Local Solutions For Local Problems
We live in a fast-paced world with a very short attention span. Thus, we always strive for a quick solution to everything. And we overlook so many other factors of a solution like accessibility, feasibility or sustainability. I believe a solution or any intervention to an issue would bring about a positive change if it
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August 2021 Newsletter
WEBINAR ON SCALING SOCIAL STARTUPS Our founder and CEO, Binayak Acharya was one of the panellists in the webinar ‘Scaling Social Startups’ a Prabhaav series by eChaiNetwork and Atal Incubation Centre – Gujarat University Startup & Entrepreneurship Council. The discussions were around encouraging growth in the social impact ecosystem. EXTENSION OF Home-based
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July 2021 Newsletter
MoU WITH DCPU, CUTTACK We are excited to announce our new collaboration with Cuttack’s District Child Protection Unit. The partnership will enable Child Care Institutions across the district to provide quality learning opportunities for children. We’re looking forward to working with DCPU, Cuttack and help children reach age-based competencies. IMPACT CONVERSATION Binayak Acharya, our founder
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