Google.org offers
$3-million grant to help education initiatives
New Delhi,
May 3Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, announced an additional grant
of $3 million over two years to Central Square Foundation and The Teacher App
on Thursday.
Central
Square Foundation, which focusses on improving early education, will be awarded
a grant of $2 million and technical assistance from the YouTube Learning Team
to create high quality curriculum-aligned video content.
The grant
will support a minimum of 20 content creators to produce 200 hours of science,
technology, engineering and math content in Hindi and other vernacular
languages. In addition, it will develop a hub to share best practices on how to
create engaging videos.
The Teacher
App, which creates video content and podcasts for math, languages and pedagogy
for Class 1-5 in Hindi for teachers, will be given $1 million to scale up its
operations. It works with three State governments – Chhattisgarh, Himachal
Pradesh and Uttarakhand – to train teachers. So far, around 95,000 teachers
have logged on to the platform that offers 50 hours of content.
Addressing a
press conference here, Nick Cain, Education Lead, Google.org, said technology
can play a powerful part in solving the learning gap in India and the company
is expanding its investments to ensure that all teachers and students are able
to benefit from it.
Google.org
announced a grant of $8.4 million to four Indian non-governmental organisations
in the education space – Learning Equality, Million Sparks Foundation, Pratham
Books Story Weaver and Pratham Education Foundation.
Source
| Business Line | 4th May 2018
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