About Eklavya Foundation
Eklavya Foundation is a registered non-profit NGO based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (India). One of its thrust areas is on-field, collaborative engagement with government structures, teachers and communities, for an inclusive, participatory, meaningful and culturally responsive education grounded in critical, inquiry-based, experiential learning. Currently, Eklavya has a strong on-ground presence in select districts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar, and outreach to organizations and locations across India through the professional support initiative and publications.
Eklavya’s work in Publishing
Eklavya has published over 800 titles for children and educators in over 15 scheduled and non-scheduled Indian languages. Eklavya’s publishing and dissemination efforts, guided by its school and community-based programmes, have reached millions of readers across the country. The focus of publishing has been to produce books that reflect the life and environment of young readers, especially those from the marginalized and underrepresented communities, while keeping the language accessible and the prices affordable.
Role: Internship / Fellowship
Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Number of positions: 2
Duration: 6-8 months
Honorarium: INR 10,000-12,000 per month
Other support: Food and lodging will be provided.
About the work
As a part of our ongoing work of creating and disseminating good quality children’s literature in Indian languages, we invite internship applications to join us to be a part of this exciting work. This opportunity will help you to develop perspectives and skills in publishing accessible children’s literature and enabling its reach to children across languages. We are looking for someone who is passionate about children’s books in Indian languages and believes in the transformative power of good quality literature.
The internship will include engaging in various aspects of developing and disseminating children’s literature in Indian languages, particularly Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Assamese, Bangla, Odia, Telugu and Malayalam.
Feel free to apply in case you have expertise in languages other than these (including scheduled or non-scheduled). Please specify any/ all the languages you are proficient in (reading, writing, speaking/ beginner or native) and those you would be interested in exploring as a part of this engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the translation of children’s books (picture story books, non fiction, poems) and young adult books from Hindi/ English/ Indian languages to various scheduled/ non-scheduled Indian languages (Kannada, Assamese, Khasi, Garo, Bangla, Malayalam, Marathi, etc.)
- Discover potential manuscripts or material for publication (either though soliciting or commissioning) in various Indian languages.
- Support in vetting and proofreading as per prowess in Indian languages.
- Reviewing or anchoring the review of (through experts) existing Eklavya titles in various scheduled/ non-scheduled Indian languages.
- Documenting, keeping track of and making payments to authors/ illustrators/ developers/ translators/ editors etc.
- Social media content creation and management in liaison with the concerned internal teams.
- Assist in various publishing processes including database creation, agreement support and other liasoning required with internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist in documenting processes and projects, writing reports.
- Critical inputs on the ongoing work (books, translations, strategies).
- Being part of team and stakeholder meetings as needed.
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