Ashok Bagdy Supports the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation

A resident of Tampa, Florida, Ashok Bagdy serves as Vice President of Outsourcing Services for Cameo Corporate Services Limited, a business process outsourcing company headquartered in Chennai, India. Mr. Bagdy, who received a Bachelor of Commerce from Madras University and a Master of Business Administration from Bharathiar University, maintains a deep interest in the opportunities available to the people of India. In order to improve access to education, health care, and other resources in rural India, Ashok Bagdy supports the efforts of the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation.

Members of the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation note that while India continues to make great strides in fields such as technology and nuclear power, many Indian citizens still struggle with core skills and concerns such as literacy. The Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation and generous donors like Ashok Bagdy aim to erase illiteracy in India, currently at 65.4 percent in rural and tribal areas, by 2015. Though the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation's goal may seem intimidating, the charity possesses the numbers to see its mission through: 34,343 teachers, 22 field organizations, 8 support agencies, roughly 6,000 volunteers and thousands of supporters such as Ashok Bagdy. Together, these individuals and entities form a powerful network that advocates literacy and self-empowerment through one-teacher schoolhouses all across India.

Thanks largely to the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation's robust network of contributors, its program has become the country's dominant education movement. But the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation sees achieving basic literacy for India as only the beginning. The next step is to teach rural communities the skills they need to seek greater development and political influence. To achieve that goal, the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation must become even stronger. Visit Ekal.org to learn more about this powerful educational movement.