Education and Life skills training are the two most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality.These are vital to enhance India’s competitiveness in the global economy. Therefore, ensuring access to quality education for all, in particular for the poor and rural population, is central to the economic and social development of India.
Trailing the path on similar tenets,realizing the importance of imbibition of basic education in Indian population,specially in remote and rural places, a couple of years back, several young students from Harvard Business School,Boston,USA took the plunge to make a difference in the existing deplorable scenario in a small village in Uttar Pradesh in Mathura district called Rajugella and founded an organization called India School Fund.
India School Fund is a non-profit making organization which aims at providing sustained community-based education to sunder the iniquitous cycle of poverty[despite the rich abundance of natural resources in this place], illiteracy and the resultant bashfulness.The organization takes a pragmatic approach to fulfilling its objectives by drawing strength from powerful community participation and institutional networks, as well as business techniques with non-profit objectives, creating a resolute headway towards making a sustainable impact in the education sector in India.
ISF initiative has devised a five-step approach to scaling sustainable social and economic changes. The first step is to provide relevant primary education and basic health care to community members under the Fund’s target audience canopy. Second, to expand the ISF program to surrounding villages and engage new (and larger) communities. Thirdly, to develop middle school and vocational training programs in the interest of elongating and diversifying educational opportunities available. Fourth, to provide community members access to financial and business opportunities. Lastly, to replicate and differentiate existing educational “clusters” in other rural areas of India.
They have been making steady endeavours yielding fruitful results,have synergised with South Asia Business Association (SABA) for fundraising and developed alliance with Rishi Valley Institute for Education Resources (RIVER) who are experts in rural education and Round Table India (RTI) for construction purposes.
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.Largely,ISF has been a great success story sincerely making a difference. To know more about the organization or to help or donate or volunteer in it's activities,do visit their webpage http://indiaschoolfund.org/
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