Alternate Schools

At Vidyodaya School in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris, Adivasi children from PVTG communities learn through forests, culture, and mother tongue–based teaching instead of rote textbooks. Run with strong community involvement, the school blends ecology, local food knowledge, arts, and traditions into the curriculum while supporting first-generation learners with free education and holistic care.

Once labelled a failure, Azad is rewriting the meaning of education with Azadwadi, a forest school in Udaipur. Built on freedom, nature, and community, it blends traditional wisdom with modern learning to show children that lessons can be lived, not memorised.