Make A Difference wins World Summit Youth Award

Make A Difference (MAD) is a youth volunteer network that works with underprivileged children in India. MAD tries to empower children in orphanages, street shelters and poor homes with English, made possible by its education partner: Cambridge University Press. The English project takes learners from starter to intermediate level using Cambridge English for Schools.

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Right now, close to a 1000 Make A Difference volunteers teach close to 3500 kids in the Indian cities of  Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Vellore, Vijayawada and Vishakapatnam.

Make A Difference works with the motto of 'Bridging inequality in society through education'. MAD wants to bring about a situation where all children can select a career based on their aspirations and potential rather than on their financial situation or their background.

Only 13% of high schools in India use English as a medium of instruction, yet a child's higher education and future job prospects depend heavily on having it. Access to the Cambridge curriculum will put children on a par with those educated in good schools.

Besides the English project, MAD also has a Placements project running. The Placements wing of Make A Difference focuses on both career specific and general exposure.

The basic aim of the Placements programme is to place the children in the same footing as children from regular homes with regards to experiences and interaction with various walks of life.

A wide range of instructive and informative sessions including visits to hotels, factories, professional colleges as well as enriching experiences such as camps, arts and crafts workshops etc. are conducted.

 MAD is the winner of the Ashoka Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition 2008, and was nominated as the best Medium Category NGO in the Indiya Shines initiative organized by GreatNonProfits.com in 2009. MAD is also a Noble Laureate of the Karamveer Puraskar awarded by ICongo, global fellow of YouthActionNet and Cordes Fellow 2010.

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For more details, contact:
Jithin Krishnan, 09176 55 38 45, publicrelations.national@makeadiff.in
Ishita Sharma, 09009213350, isharma.nliu@gmail.com