<P> The motto of Manthan being Saakshar Bharat, Sashakt Bharat, it has been providing quality education selflessly . </P> <P> Shantha Sinha won a Magsaysay Award in 2003 in recognition of "Her guiding the people of Andhra Pradesh to end the scourge of child labour and send all of their children to school ." As head of an extension programme at the University of Hyderabad in 1987, she organised a three - month - long camp to prepare children rescued from bonded labour to attend school . Later, in 1991, she guided her family's Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation to take up this idea as part of its overriding mission in Andhra Pradesh . Her original transition camps grew into full - fledged residential "bridge schools ." The foundation's aim is to create a social climate hostile to child labour, child marriage and other practices that deny children the right to a normal childhood . Today the MV Foundation's bridge schools and programmes extend to 4,300 villages . </P> <P> The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has drafted a definition of literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts . Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society ." </P> <P> The National Literacy Mission defines literacy as acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to one's day - to - day life . The achievement of functional literacy implies (i) self - reliance in 3 R's, (ii) awareness of the causes of deprivation and the ability to move towards amelioration of their condition by participating in the process of development, (iii) acquiring skills to improve economic status and general well being, and (iv) imbibing values such as national integration, conservation of environment, women's equality, observance of small family norms . </P>

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