Access to Education

For every cup of tea sold at his stall, he used half the amount towards the education and health of the slum kids.

The district head who was visiting the school to inspect the infrastructure and learning outcomes, decided to pick the chalk and duster and teach the students who seemed quite delighted to listen to her speak.

What started as a personal project by the bureaucrat, has impacted the lives of over 20,000 students across 73 schools in the last three months.

Trisha Bhattacharya and Soorya Balasubramanian, students of classes 9 and 10 from Vibgyor High School in Goregaon, were behind this initiative.

Co-founder and CEO of Safeducate, a training, skilling and consulting firm, Divya Jain launched the initiative in 2015. Within three years, these container classrooms have successfully trained over 20,000 students from Tier-3 cities of rural India!

Educate Girls implemented the world’s first Development Impact Bond (DIB) in the education sector, also India’s first-ever DIB to reach out to 7,300 children.

Today, even as she turns 77, Beula Gabriel transforms the lives of hundreds of underprivileged students at St Joseph’s Secondary School, that she founded 25 years ago.

From arriving in his first posting in a government school in the remote district of Koraput and finding only two students in 1998, to winning the best teacher award at the district, state, and national level - it has been a long journey for Mishra.

The failure of any of these 575 schools to adhere to this order will invite strict action by the government.

Sana recalls how she would often find these kids right outside the door, speaking in a crude language, hurling abuses at each other. Many of them never had the fortune to even look at a school gate.