free education

Kanchan Sharma, a retired teacher from Jammu, has been on a mission to empower poor children by providing them with free education through her open school.

Naresh Pal from Uttar Pradesh runs a school under a bridge in Delhi to provide free education to underprivileged children in the area.

A successful scientist in Canada, Shiva Balak Misra made his life’s mission to make education accessible to children in his village Kunaura in Uttar Pradesh, thus starting the Bharatiya Gramin Vidyalaya

Dev Pratap, who ran away from home as a child, started Voice of Slum NGO in 2016. He now feeds over 1,000 people in the Gwalior slums every day.

Nitin Kumar is a final-year law student who established Ek Nayee Raah Foundation, an NGO that caters to coaching children from low-income backgrounds for free.

Kanpur-based Nitin Kumar runs Ek Nayee Rahh Foundation, an NGO that has started a 'ghat waala school' to teach children of marginalised backgrounds different subjects, entirely free of cost. He also funds their school fees and higher education

“I have taught at least three generations from the same family," says Nanda Prusty of Kantira village in Odisha’s Jajpur district, approximately 100 km from the capital city of Bhubaneswar

"We found vagrant kids working in fishing factories, scrap yards, chai shops, shoe polish stalls and even as domestic help or ragpickers. We brought them together and sat them in a class."

Fondly known as Malik Bhai, the 29-year-old tea seller has been spending 80 per cent of his income to educate more than 40 underprivileged children since the last three years!

“We were not part of any NGO. We were just individuals trying to do whatever best we can to make our education beneficial not just for us, but also our society.”