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GetVidya
GetVidya is a registered (Act 21, 1860) non-profit charitable trust under government of India and works to spread education and support schools and young students, especially the have-nots of Indian society. GetVidya was founded in April 2007 by few students of IIT Bombay and IT BHU.

Declared Aim of GetVidya: GetVidya is an organization (Trust) committed to spread education to children of different statures of Indian society (Physically challenged, Mentally challenged & Socially challenged) and help in bringing them on a common platform to enable them to interact with the rest of the society. We will be achieving it through our USP & what we are good at, which is Technology.

History
GetVidya started with an aim to promote free education to engineering entrance aspirants preparing for IIT JEE, AIEEE, etc and continued to do so until mid 2010. During this time they gave free study material, online coaching, free tests/quizzes, information on books and exams along with answering doubts of young students online from their hostel rooms. They made made several hundreds of videos freely available for students. They got close to 30,000 registered users during this time. Around mid 2010 they started to develop training programs and tools to keep underprivileged children interested in studies. GetVidya developed an interactive educational software, Kiddo, that helps teachers create innovative quizzes and then use it to teach various subjects through computers. The software is highly flexible and the teachers can create their own content, questions, answers etc. This leaves a long lasting impression on the mind of the child and help him retain the information much longer as compared to books. They distribute this software absolutely free of cost and also conduct free teacher training sessions so that the teachers can utilize the software to its fullest potential. They have given this software to a couple of NGOs and more than 40 schools across India.

They also developed another software called 'Autisto that asks questions and provides answers using only images, animations and sound. This software is targeted to help teach kids with Autism. Autistic kids have significant problems in reading and hence they need special means of teaching through images and sound. GetVidya distributes Autisto free of cost to Autism centers and schools catering to children with special needs. As the software is open source the teacher has immense flexibility to put any image or sound she wishes. This makes learning very empathetic. The teachers can put images related to the kids parents, siblings and home which helps the kid to relate to these teaching fairly easily. GetVidya has given this software to about 15 autism centers in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. We also did extensive training of the teachers of the centers to ensure they are enabled to fully utilize the software.

Products
Kiddo, Autisto, Screamer

Team
GetVidya is essentially an student run enterprise turned into an organization focused to help the young kids. The team constitutes of young professionals and primarily students from IITs. GetVidya currently has about 50,000 registered members and have recorded about 1 million page views in September 2011.

Recognition
GetVidya has been praised by many national newspapers and social organizations for their work towards needy children.