01Learning centres
Eleven rooms, open at six
Two hours a day, six days a week, in a group of eighteen. Not a school and not a tuition class — the place a child goes when home has one room and no table.
2,412children this year
Read the whole thingWhat we do
Four programmes
that hold each
other up
A child who is hungry does not learn. A child who cannot see the board is not slow. A mother with no income of her own is the strongest single predictor in our data of a child leaving school. None of these four works on its own, which is why we stopped running them as if they did.
2,412children across all four this year
The list
The four,
in order of cost
Learning centres take the largest share, the kitchen the next. Health and livelihoods are small lines that make the other two work.
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02Daily kitchen
The kitchen runs at four
One hot meal, every centre evening, eaten at the centre. The mid-day meal at school stops at three o'clock and the school year stops in April. Hunger does neither.
2,412children fed each centre day
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03Health & sight
The child who was not slow
One health check a year for every child at a centre, run at the centre so no parent loses a day's wage. Height, weight, haemoglobin, teeth, ears, and — the one that changes lives — eyes.
2,790children screened last year
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04Mothers' livelihoods
The mothers keep their own books
Tailoring courses and savings groups for the mothers of children at the centres. Started because the single best predictor of whether a child stays in school here is whether her mother has an income of her own.
310women this year
Read the whole thingEvery programme page ends with what has not worked. A tablet programme we closed, two centres that never filled, and a link we cannot prove. They are on the pages and in the annual reports, not left out of them.
Work it out
What it buys,
and what it costs you
Move the amount, pick your tax position. Everything is worked from the same unit costs the accounts use, and it shows its working.
₹200₹25,000
In a year, that is
₹2,500
Which pays for any one of these
- 0mealsA hot evening meal
- 0kitsA school kit
- 0passesA year's bus pass for a girl in Class 8 or above
- 0termsA term at a learning centre
- 0placesA three-month tailoring course for a mother
- Below the cost of a single unit of anything we run — which does not make it useless, it makes it part of somebody else's.
Alternatives, not additions. The same rupee cannot buy a meal and a school kit, and a calculator that adds them up is lying to you.
After 80G, it costs you
₹2,500
- You give
- ₹2,500
- Deduction from taxable income (50%)
- ₹1,250
- Tax you therefore do not pay
- ₹0
On the new regime, section 80G gives you nothing. This trust is not one of the centrally-notified funds that survive there, so the donation costs you exactly what you give.
An estimate, and not tax advice. 80G deducts from your taxable income — it is not a refund. The total of such donations is itself capped at 10% of your adjusted gross total income, which this does not model, and anything over ₹2,000 given in cash is not deductible at all. Check your own position with your accountant.
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