Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 1,000 children in learning centers | 400 children through mobile school | 100 beneficiaries in vocational training | 100 staff members

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2025):

• Partnership began in 2022
• 4 projects with 117 volunteers
• 2,400+ pro bono hours committed
• $504,200+ value of pro bono consulting
• $30,000 of grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Founded in 2011, Ek Tara’s goal is to educate, engage and empower girls from marginalized communities. The mission is to transform the lives of girls living in urban slum communities in the city of Kolkata by giving them access to high-quality learning resources. This coupled with academic and nonacademic interventions aimed at holistic development will enable them to make informed life choices.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

Ek Tara partners with Team4Tech to work towards creating learning management system to embed monitoring and evaluation tools. With the MIS system, it will collect data for all programs to understand how to positively support students’ growth. In addition to the partnership, Team4Tech supports Ek Tara in creating programming and robotics opportunities for their learners.

Ek Tara Partnership Overview

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

• Number of materials accessed in the LMS per day

Learner Growth

• n/a

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

• Number of materials uploaded and catalougued in the LMS tool
• Number of educators, admins and students trained in using the LMS
• Number of staff trained in various tech tools
• Number of master trainers trained

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

• Compile all offline and online forms/ formats used departwise to create a robust framework in a software form
• Train all programme staff on handling of MnE tool

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Ek Tara has put their grant funding towards:

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• improving tech capacity
  • Ek Tara purchased laptops, desktops, and other infrastructure for training students.
• enhancing training materials
  • Ek Tara invested in their training for staff to build capacity across all staff levels for tech adoption.
• investing in M&E tools.
  • Ek Tara purchased a M&E web application to support their long-term goal of creating an M&E tool to track all processes of the organization.

Skilled Volunteering Projects:

• February 2023: Design for Impact with Adobe (drop down for more)