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| December 2008: Bharti Foundation was presented the Asian CSR Award, 2008 for the Support and Improvement of Education at the 7th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility |
Bharti Foundation was awarded the Asian CSR Award, 2008 for Support and Improvement of Education in Singapore on November 21, 2008. Presented by Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of Economic and Social Commission for Asia, the award recognizes the Satya Bharti School Program as Bharti Foundation’s contribution and commitment to education of rural communities.
The Asian CSR Awards, co-presented this year by Asian Institute of Management, the Center for Corporate Social Responsibility and Intel Corporation, is Asia's premier awards program on corporate social responsibility. Awarded in five categories, the Awards recognize and honours organizations for their outstanding, innovative and world class projects and programs. Bharti Foundation was chosen as the winner of the Support and Improvement of Education category from among 170 entries representing 120 companies from 15 countries.
Some of the factors that helped Bharti Foundation win the prestigious award for the Satya Bharti School Program initiative are as follows:
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The program aims to ensure access to quality education for underprivileged children across the deepest rural pockets of the country and has developed benchmarks for quality education |
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The program is a combined model of various building blocks of education like quality teachers, comprehensive training modules, scientifically designed teaching learning processes |
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More than 50% of the curriculum followed at the Satya Bharti Schools is based on projects and activities that help children learn through self-exploration and discovery rather than rote learning |
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More than 90% of parents of students have reported an overall personality improvement and English language speaking skills in their children | |
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