Putting every Mumbai child in school

: The United Nations International Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF) initiated Pratham in 1993-94 with a view that it should become a city-wide mission for achievement of universal primary education in Mumbai by the year 2000. The goal was to get every slum child in Mumbai within the ages of 3-5 into pre-primary school, every 6-10 year old in a formal school and reduce the drop out rates of students. The Pratham Trust was first chaired by Mr. S. P. Godrej and is now led by Mr. N. Vaghul, the Chairman of ICICI, who championed the cause and provided the right platform to launch this movement on the a mass scale.