Odisha-based nonprofit, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) has won the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2022, the NGO announced on the occasion of International Literacy Day (September 8).
The international jury recognized KISS for its ‘Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education’ programme that aims to tackle the problem of poor retention in native students due to classroom language barriers and teachers' incapacity to deal with multilingual and multicultural classrooms effectively.
