Those We Serve: Our Newest Graduates

ADULT LITERACY GRADUATION CEREMONY IN PALGHAR
The Rotary Club of Bombay along with our generous donor CDSL, our Computer Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) solution partner, TCS successfully trained and certified 4,100 beneficiaries via 142 prerikas over a period of four months ending February 2023. 124 villages were covered in three blocks, i.e., Jawhar, Mokhada and Sapahale.

The graduation ceremony was held on March 19th, 2023, at the Sai Samaj Mandir in Mokhada. More than 3000 beneficiaries as well as 140 prerikas attended the event. The attendees also included DG Sandip Agarwalla, First Lady Malini, Mr. Sunil Bhusara (MLA, Vikramgad (Palghar), CDSL CFO Mr. Girish Amesara along with CDSL CSE volunteers team, Mr. Kishan Gopal Laddha – Literacy as a Service Head, TCS CSR, Radhika Mehta (District Secretary –
SFA Literacy), members from the Rotary Club of Bombay, Rotary Club of Palghar, Rotary Club of Bombay Central, and senior leaders from our coordinating agencies – Society for Human and Environmental Development (S.H.E.D.), Action
Related To The Organisation of Education, Health And Nutrition (AROEHAN) & the Diganta Swaraj Foundation.

The prerikas were felicitated with certificates from TCS for empowering community members with functional literacy. Beneficiaries were also awarded graduation certificates for successfully completing the course. Many of them came
up on stage to share their experiences and the impact the programme has had on their daily lives and livelihood.
We are proud to share that our next batch of 150 prerikas instructing approximately 4500 beneficiaries is underway and we hope to have them graduate in June 2023! To put things in perspective, we will have completed 8500 beneficiaries very soon and endeavour to reach 25,000 beneficiaries in over 800 villages via 800 prerikas.