Access to Education

Assam's Rituparna Neog runs Akam Foundation, an NGO that builds free libraries in villages to break barriers around gender, LGBTQ communities and sexuality.

Parmita Sarma and Mazin Mukhtar started Akshar School in Assam to help underprivileged kids get access to education. The couple accepts only plastic as fee. They also teach students how to upcycle and recycle plastic, along with other vocational training.

Oxford graduate Juhi Koré took to LinkedIn to pay tribute to how her grandfather instilled the importance of education in her through his struggles, despite belonging to a lower caste family in the 1940s and ‘50s.

Mumbai-based Haimanti Sen, founder of a non-governmental organisation called Junoon, provides basic education to underprivileged kids for free. 

Since 2019, Gurugram-based Nilay Agarwal has been spending all his free time feeding the hungry and educating the underprivileged children from 10 cities through his NGO Vishalakshi Foundation.

After retirement, NRI Syed Hussaini launched his foundation, SEED USA, to provide education, healthcare, and employment to underprivileged Indians back home.

Rakesh, a government school student who dreams of becoming a civil servant, faces a harsh reality. He and others like him need your help to stay in school.

The stories of Jaykumar Vaidya, Wasima Shaikh and Vishnu Auti are ones of grit and determination. Fighting poverty, stereotypes and fate to educate themselves, today they are changemakers at the grassroot level.

In the span of one year, Dr Jitendra Kumar Soni, District Collector in Nagaur, Rajasthan, ensured that 3,068 schools had a working electricity connection.

As part of the SBI Youth for India Fellowship, Lakshmi Nair moved to Satbunga, a remote village located in Nainital district in Uttarakhand to work with the Central Himalayan Rural Action Group. Here's her story.