Rinsa Perapadan

Gyanada Foundation is a non-profit , based out of Mumbai, that was started to address the problem of underprivileged girls dropping out of school disproportionately. Gyanada Scholars program supported 137 girl children from financially under resourced backgrounds in Kolkata, Ranchi, Delhi, Pune and Mumbai to go budget private schools. With our student tracking we realised only sending girls to a better school is insufficient to reduce learning gaps and equip the students with essential skills that will positively impact positively impact their future in formal education as well as in vocational and professional opportunities. Thus, our Binary Story program aims to change the conversation to how students think, not what they think. The Binary Story is a program designed and deployed in under-resourced schools to introduce school children to Computer Science (CS) and its three pillars; Creativity, Coding and Computational Thinking in order to develop the attributes of real-world problem-solving in the students. In the current academic year, we are currently working with 108 students in 4 schools and 1 non-profit in Mumbai.