English E.Teach is an educational NGO that creates and disseminates animated English digital content based on the Maharashtra Govt. textbooks, for underprivileged children. Their videos are made page by page to match the textbook the vernacular medium children have to study. For over eight years, they have been providing free content to over 41,000 Municipal and Zilla Parishad schools across Maharashtra. The English E.Teach project was founded by Astad Parakh in 1991, under the BCPT (Bombay Community Public Trust) umbrella, its parent NGO.

Since the Covid 19 related Lockdown began, the NGP launched a free online campaign called ‘the English E.Teach 30 Day Challenge’, to help the children learn from home, just using their parents smartphones and WhatsApp. The challenge started on 30th March, 2020, and was able to reach over two million viewers – students and teachers – in the most far-flung rural areas of Maharashtra, who have been actively participating in the ‘challenge’ on a daily basis. 

Speaking to Parsi Times, Piroja Shroff, CEO of English E.Teach Project said, “We recently launched a second online campaign, called ‘Phonics with English E.Teach’, on 1st June 2020, to teach phonetics, as it is vital to the learning of English for children, who otherwise, don’t get to listen to practice how to speak correct English.”

[To view the free videos, log on to: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQ4oFmCp5Kbt79nsSJknl84krwhztiw5]