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Katha, the profit-for-all voluntary organization, is looking for PEOPLE! We have been working with children and women since 1990 and have strong links with the 54 communities we work with.


Katha also works at the leading edge in culturelinking, literary translation and publishing. We see translation as a non-divisive tool for the country as a whole. Uncommon creativities for a common good is our motto.

katha is a registered nonprofit organization.
a3 sarvodaya enclave
new delhi 110 017
 
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Partners


a katha community school in delhi

  • British Telecommunications plc - is a leading telecommunication company that believes in sharing the social responsibility and the best of their experiences and learning to build a better world. Katha and BT are working together on a project named KITES (Katha Information, Technology and e-Commerce School) to bring about digital inclusion.
  • Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of HRD, Government of India - The department covers the cost of a project (Innovative Education for Adolescent Girls) at the Katha School of Entrepreneurship.
  • Ford Foundation - is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. It has been Katha's partner in our translation initiative under Kanchi and Shishya projects for more than four years now.
  • GAIL (India) Ltd The erstwhile Gas Authority of India Ltd, India's principal gas transmission and marketing company, is one of the main partners for CITY STORIES . KATHA ASIA UTSAV, 2006.


HOLI HAI! the community gathers to celebrate holi with colours!

  • Indian Council for Cultural Relations partners Katha in the mega event of 2006, CITY STORIES . KATHA ASIA UTSAV.
  • Indira Gandhi National Open University - has lent us its support on various occasions. Katha's 'Outreach' programme, to make computer literacy accessible to the economically backward, is run by IGNOU.
  • Michael and Susan Dell Foundation The foundation helps us provide quality education to children in Delhi's slum clusters and in Arunachal Pradesh.
  • National Open School - This is a Government of India body that conducts certified secondary and senior secondary level courses through correspondence. The vocational courses being conducted by the Katha School of Entrepreneurship have been accredited by the NOS. Katha also has NOS accreditation to conduct scholastic courses and a computer course.
  • Partners in Change - PIC works towards building lasting partnerships between the corporate sector and social development initiatives in India aimed at eradication of poverty. Katha and PIC got together in 1997 and the relation is only growing stronger.
  • The Swedish Writers' Union -is a body of writers and literary translators in Sweden committed to safeguarding the economic and moral interests of its members. Katha is working on a co-translation project with the union. The project involves translation of Krishna Sobti's Ai Ladki from Hindi to Swedish and Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman's novel Blackwater from English to Hindi.