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10,000 kids in school. Thank you

On April 19, 2012 we kicked off the 'You Read, They Learn' programme. Now, 376 days later, and with overwhelming support from our readers, we have been able to send more than 10,000 children to school. Download ebooks here

Literacy is the key to our problems: Gambhir

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Gauti bats for HT's education initiative

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Gauti school of thought

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Children having fun during a Hindustan Times initiative 'You Read They Learn' programe at Pratham centre at Trilokpuri in New Delhi. HT/Virendra Singh Gosain
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‘You Read, They Learn’ (YRTL) is a year-long initiative to help educate underprivileged children. As a part of this initiative, launched initially in Delhi-NCR, HT will contribute 5 paise every day from every Metro copy of Hindustan Times sold in Delhi-NCR towards creating a corpus which will fund the education of over 10,000 children over the year. So every time you pick up a copy of Hindustan Times, a child goes to school. Besides this contribution...

editor's note

Sanjoy Narayan
You are privileged. You can read this page. But it has to be more than a privilege. It has to be every child’s right. The 2011 Census suggests that about a fourth of India is illiterate. But the real number of people who can actually read and write is even lower. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) says there are 45 million children...

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