Hello everyone!!

Today is 8/22/16, the last day before my summer comes to a close and a new school year begins. We have raised a total of $450 which will provide 18 children in India a year’s worth of education. With just 50 more dollars we will not only help 2 more children get an education but we would have also reached our goal of $500. With your help, these children in India can learn how to read instead of being illiterate like most of their population already is. They could understand the words on a page, a contract, or even a sign and enjoy doing it anytime of the year just like you or me.

I recently read a book called Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti which revolved around the story of Mary Mallon, an Irish cook who was accused of infecting many people with typhoid fever. This non-fiction book showed me just how inaccurate medical theories were and just how much you could trust them. After I finished reading this book, I started reading Flowers for Algernon, a book which exposes me to a new topic. I hope to continue reading throughout the school year and more forward in the future.

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–Reva Agrawal

Hi everyone!!!

This week I read the book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. This historical fictional story led me through the characters journey which had many hardships. They could not have come to terms with their challenges of loneliness and rejection without the support of another person, like the relationship between Vivian and Molly.

Vivian had a lingering fear of looking into her past due to her orphan background and needed someone to help her go through it. Molly had a continuous feeling of rejection due to the fact that she had been through several foster homes and her current one did not accept her for the person she is. Vivian and Molly could relate to each other. They would spend hours in the attic building a friendship they both would remember. As we read through this book, both of these stories are expressed making us notice all the parallels and similar yet different struggles that they both had to deal with. These two orphans with different stories dig the other one out of the hole of loneliness that they have found themselves in.

Just like with Vivian and Molly, I believe that you can get yourself out of any hole life has led you to be in. You can fight back and climb your way out or at least fill that hole up so no one finds their self in the same situation as you. Here at Pratham we are trying to fill in the hole of illiteracy by providing education. But these children will not learn anything without your donations. To donate, click the “JOIN ME” button at the bottom of the email. A year of education for one child is equivalent to just $25! The more donations, the safer these children are. Spread awareness among your family and friends about our cause and encourage them to help get “every child in school and learning well.”

Thanks for all your support!

Reva Agrawal

Dear Friends,
This week I have been reading a book called “Shelf Life” that is edited by Gary Paulsen. This book is a collection of ten short stories that “benefit pro-literacy worldwide.” As I stumbled across this collection, Pratham was all I could think about. The Readathon was all I could think about. This book was created with the intention of books and an education can change lives just like what I believe this organization is trying to portray by doing a readathon. I chose this book to read because I thought that this collection of short stories would open my eyes to how important and education is our world and our lives.
In his introduction, Gary Paulsen said, “The stories in this collection range from fantasy to farce, from realism to science fiction, but they all have something in common: books that change lives.” Education can change the way you look at things and open new roads to endless possibilities. One of the stories included in this book talks about a boy who doesn’t know what book to write about for his book report. A girl helps with his book report by telling him the storyline if a book. The boy gets really interested into the story written in a book, something he never thought he would enjoy. This told me that reading, and even education as a whole can bring the unexpected and turn your life around or at least make it more enjoyable.
The positive mindset that spreads from reading and having an education is something that the children in India are lacking. With your donations to Pratham, we can break that habit and form a better future for the world around us. Please donate and contribute to help the children in India who need the smiles and imagination that come from learning new things.
Love,
Reva Agrawal