rural education

From learning to speak in English, overcoming their insecurities to dreaming big in life, students in rural Odisha are now daring to pursue their personal and professional aspirations.

“Now, we have started developing codes, too. Our teacher taught us how to make them when we were in Class VI. A lot of research is involved before preparing each video.”

Dr Suwas, who could complete his education solely because his friends were willing to help him get to school from his home in a slum, understands exactly how underprivileged students feel when they cannot afford transportation.

Ashish decided to utilise his education and experience to bring back to life what seemed like an old, lost school heritage.

An initiative that produces books in tribal dialects in an underdeveloped area of Madhya Pradesh is helping tribal children to not only become better learners in school but is also reconnecting them with their indigenous culture and traditions. Alaknanda Sanap takes a closer look.

Whenever she misses her parents, she opens her books and starts studying as it makes her feel closer to them.

Kids in the village of Shara, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places in Ladakh, had never attended nursery school. But one policeman changed that.

Prakash Academy runs after-school programmes in Bihar to make sure that children from the villages can access the same resources as their urban counterparts

Sehar Bajwa started an after-school centre for learning called Anmol Shiksha in Dera Bassi, Punjab, with the help of two single mothers who volunteered to teach.

Samina Bano, an IIM Bangalore alumna and RTE crusader, fought several odds in Uttar Pradesh to enable over 20,000 children from underprivileged gain access education education in private schools. This is how.