Anandan

Anandan is a teaching institution based in Calcutta, and aims to provide all-round education to slum children. What does all-round education really mean? Rather than simply literacy skills, Anandan extends it to what it calls, the excitement of knowledge. And this is what the children really need - the ability to think and reason and dream. Education cannot be simply restricted to knowledge of A, B, C... Anandan does it by welcoming children of all ages, engages them in interesting games and playing with toys, and even uses computers as a teaching medium. What can we do to make things even better? Maybe by donating Mechano sets and Lego building blocks, or by encouraging local companies to develop better teaching aids through computers, or by sending coloring books with washable colors...

On a related note, Intel is planning to train 10 million teachers across developing countries so that the teachers can expand into the use of computers as better teaching aids.