Help create a Billion Literates!

The more things change, the more they remain the same. And though  we at OBLF will continue to serve our under-privileged children in a meaningful way, we also want to bring fresh ideas, innovative methods, and creative thinking in the way we do it. Starting this month, Anish Ramachandran is the CEO of OBLF. Over the past 10 months Anish has already been working with us on multiple fronts and  brings with him tons of leadership experience, fresh approach, and a passion for the cause. He is a former Vice-President of Intel Corporation. Prior to his retirement from the corporate sector, he was VP and Director of Intel's Greater Asia Region operations, and worked at Intel in various leadership roles for over eighteen years. Prior to Intel, Anish was with Novell Inc. for close to seven years and before that with a couple of other companies. Anish is a Post Graduate alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur and a graduate in Commerce from Madras University. We are sure that under his leadership, OBLF will reach new levels of service.

Also, our 9^th academic year came to a close at the end of February 2020. Our Year-end Assessments – Oral and Written – were held from 17^th to 26^th February, 2020 for each of our about 4500 children.  More than 30 of our rural Coordinators, along with our 8 Supervisors and the Management team took a lot of effort to conduct these assessments in the remotest of schools, under the most trying conditions.

An analysis of the same shows that 99% of the children (who had at least 60 days’ attendance), improved in their English language skills.

The Assessment results show that 45% children scored over 60% marks at the year-end, as against less than 2% at the beginning of the year.

As against 45% of the OBLF children scoring > 60%, only 7% of Non-OBLF children scored >60%. This shows that OBLF’s Program on English language skills is indeed benefiting our rural children.