-:Tara Akshar:-

Over 56,000 Women Made Literate in 3 Years

TARA Akshar Graduate as Sarpanch

This is 35 years old Sevanti Bai who is the Sarpanch (head of a Panchayat, known as Local Government Council) of Jamanya village in Niwali block of Barwani district in Madhya Pradesh in Central India. She was an illiterate. She learned to read and write in 35 days on TARA Akshar course. Now she feels proud of herself and confident in running the complete administration of the village.

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TARA Akshar has taught more adults to read in India in the last two years than any other adult literacy method. Over 56,000 illiterate women have graduated the TARA Akshar course and so learned to read and write in just over 35 days.

Our focus is on teaching illiterate women in rural India, whose ages range from 8 to 60. Most of them have never been to school.

You can help! We are very pleased with what we have done, but we have had to turn away tens of thousands of women who wanted to do the TARA Akshar Literacy Course because we do not have enough resources. If you would like to help - money, translations, volunteering, graphics - in India or overseas. Pleasecilck here to contact us.

80 year Old Learns to Read

Gauri Devi of Bihar in Northern India is 80 years old. Despite failing eyesight, she took the 35 day laptop TARA Akshar course, and now reads the newspaper and helps her grandchildren to read.

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Students write Thank you Notes

This is 32 year old Maina Devi, of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. She learned to read and write in 35 days on the TARA Akshar course, and wrote us her own thank-you note to prove it.

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TARA Akshar uses the ReadingWise technique for learning.
TARA Akshar is a TARAhaat venture.
TARAhaat is part of the Development Alternatives Group.

TARA Akshar has been funded by DFID (through its PACS Programme), Telecentre.org, Oxfam, Suzlon Foundation, Connect For Change UK and others.