Stories from the field

The names behind the numbers.

Written with the people in them, shared with their permission, and checked by our field team.

Meena's first report card

“I want to be the teacher who tells girls they are good at maths.”

Two years ago Meena was about to leave school to look after her brothers. This term she came first in maths.

Twenty-two women, forty drums of sambar and 6,400 lunches before 11 — a morning in our Hebbal kitchen.

Three years after 300 volunteers planted it, the Yelahanka school forest is taller than the classroom roof.

Rukmini borrowed a sewing machine in 2021. Today her self-help group stitches 4,000 school uniforms a year.

Imran's teacher thought he wasn't paying attention. A ten-minute eye test at our camp found the real reason.

A software engineer and an 81-year-old widow have shared tea every Tuesday for two years.