Gubbachi

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece focuses on how organizations are rising to the challenges of creating an effective and inclusive internal culture by deploying plural and informal means.

In her essay, Manimakalai Raja discusses the interlinkages between the clarity and integrity related to organizational values, and the ability to effectively implement policies related to well-being.

Our journey of nine years in Gubbachi feels a bit like Alice’s plunge into the rabbit hole of fantastical creatures – rich, constantly evolving and sometimes unexpected. We set out in 2015 (with staunch backing from WIPRO) with a humble idea of running a Bridge Program in Kodathi GHPS (Government Higher Primary School) along Sarjapur […]

Manimakalai Raja, in her piece on capacity building in English in her organization, shows how responding to the institutional context of government schools in which they work with, in an organic manner, has been such an integral part of this subject-specific capability development journey.

In the essay “Working with the government for educational change,” Rizwan Ahmed critically interrogates his experience as a CSO member of working with the governmental system, while striving toward ensuring the educational rights of children from marginal, migrant communities.

Manimakalai Raja shares the learnings from interventions in multi-grade, multi-level classes in government schools that primarily cater to migrant children; this piece shows how it is possible to work with the government to make a real difference into children’s learning education processes, especially those related to language learning.