87 results for "india"

Benetech Wins All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Grant to Improve Literacy for Primary School Students with Disabilities in India

By Benetech, posted in Education on February 5, 2015

We are delighted to share that USAID, World Vision, and the Australian Government awarded Benetech a 2015 grant to improve literacy for primary school students who are blind in India. The new grant, under the three partners’ All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development literacy innovations competition, funds our proposed winning project to provide Indian students who are blind with mother tongue instruction and reading materials through Bookshare, our digital library of accessible books.

Read More

How a New Grant to Bookshare International Will Create Lasting Impact in India

By Benetech, posted in Education on September 26, 2013

Our new Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action is to increase service and expand the number of accessible books for people who are blind in India through Bookshare International, an initiative of our Global Literacy Program. We are embarking on this project with the support of a generous grant from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. As the General Manager for our Global Literacy Program, I’d like to tell you a bit more about the work this grant will make possible, the lasting impact it allows us to make and why this project advances CGI’s mission of creating and implementing original solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

Read More

New Statistical Analysis Contradicts Indian Government Accounts of Human Rights Violations During the Punjab Counterinsurgency

By Benetech, posted in Benetech on January 29, 2009

As Indians gather for Republic Day celebrations this week to mark the adoption of the Indian constitution, new analysis reveals the human cost of suspending constitutional rights in India. The Benetech® Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) and Ensaaf released a report today presenting verifiable quantitative findings on mass disappearances and extrajudicial executions in the […]

Read More

Bookshare Expands to Provide Accessible Books in India

By Benetech, posted in Education on October 20, 2008

Announces Partnerships with Indian Organizations that Serve Readers with Print Disabilities Bookshare®, the world’s largest online library for people with print disabilities, has announced three new partnerships to support the availability of accessible digital texts in India. These partnerships will help International Bookshare begin to serve India’s ten million blind people, three million of whom […]

Read More

Benetech Promotes Bookshare at IES Mulund School as a Bridge Tool for Digital Literacy

By Shareef Phillips, posted in Benetech, bookshare, Education, The Impact on March 4, 2024

As part of our efforts to further the impact of digital literacy on the international stage, Benetech met with the Indian Education Society (IES) Mulund, a high-school, located in Mumbai, India. As part of this interview, Rujul, an IES Mulund student using Bookshare, along with her parents, teacher, and former principal, share the importance of […]

Read More