welfare education . founded 1988 founder geeta dharmarajan headquarters delhi india key people geeta dharmarajan president products books website katha katha is a registered non profit and non governmental organisation based in delhi that works in the field of community development child welfare education and literature . it was founded by geeta dharmarajan in 1988 . it connects grassroots work in education urban resurgence and story . it calls itself a profit for all organisation that moves towards achieving social justice and curb poverty in urban india . 1 2 3 4 it also runs kites katha information technology and e commerce school a non conventional school which providing information and communication skills to 3000 children in slum area of govindpuri delhi . 5 as a publisher katha publishes books for children which include stories from mostly indian folklore and mythology translating stories into english and hindi from 21 regional indian languages 6 7 and today is a leading name in translation genre in indian publishing 8 9 and has firmly put translation onto the indian publishing agenda with the katha prize stories series 10 contents 1 mission 2 work 3 references 4 external links mission edit katha s mission is given momentum by a solitary idea that children can bring positive change to their community if they are empowered through education . 11 work edit katha has set up around 96 schools in delhi 12 and works with a large team of volunteer and intellectuals . many of these schools are in urban slums where over 7 000 underprivileged children gain access to education . 9 it executes stories in identity building of the children and believes that there is a need to tell stories from india in order to create a new generation of children that would have a strong sense of rooted ness to their culture . 13 this is katha ngo s cultural resistance that is done through its publishing division katha books that has been working in the area of translating indian literature since 1989 . 14 in 2001 it formed kites katha information technology and e commerce school in govindpuri new delhi a non conventional school in a joint initiative with british telecom major british telecom providing information and communication skills to 3000 children from the poorest communities . 5 15 16 in march 2009 katha which also runs several income generation programs for women by training skills like cooking baking tailoring and teaching at its various community centres gave away the dilli ki shaan pride of delhi awards to 15 women community leaders ; speaking on the occasion the chief minister of delhi sheila dikshit said i think katha is doing a better job than even the delhi government to bring under privileged women to the forefront . 2 17 18 references edit let me know a b sheila lauds ngo for work on women s uplift tnn the times of india 26 march 2009 . ngos delhi katha prfile indiangos . ngo partnership system katha profile govt . of india website . a b literacy in communities slum haven unesco . moontime and mayil ravana young readers and their parents are hungry for homespun stories archana venkat the hindu business line aug 11 2006 . katha translating india by rita kothari . foundation books 2006 . isbn 8175963050 . p. 102 . translation as reclamation it is boom time for translation in india subash jeyan the hindu sep 04 2005 . a b gap years in india discover a land of wondrous variety the independent 14 august 2006 . a niche for indian writing in france the hindu may 20 2001 . early childhood development early childhood dev elopement katha vilasam story resource and research centre ms word file take part now foreign firms give csr a hearing british telecom gives back to indian society bs reporter new delhi business standard september 18 2007 . how kite changed these children s lives rediff.com october 08 2005 . slum women add colour to dilli ki shaan suraj anand cnn ibn mar 26 2009 . slum women spread wings ananya panda tribune news service the tribune march 9 2009 . external links edit katha official website a katha of success geeta dharamrajan on how the publishing house katha came into being at the hindu . katha ngo profile at the times group retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title katha ngo & oldid 743021237 categories organizations established in 19891989 establishments in indiapublishing companies of indiacharities based in indiachild education organizationsorganisations based in delhieducational organisations in indiahidden categories use indian english from july 2015all wikipedia articles written in indian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 08 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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