Overview:
The Akanksha Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide children from low-income communities with a high-quality education, enabling them to maximize their potential and transform their lives. Akanksha works primarily in the field of education, addressing formal education by initiating school reform through its School Project.

The Akanksha School Project represents our first effort to work with the formal school system in Mumbai and Pune. It is an effort by Akanksha to extend its activities in the field of education, leveraging our experiences from nearly twenty years of work with children from low-income communities to improve the quality of learning in public schools. Specifically, Akanksha hopes to provide inputs in the fields of teaching, extracurricular activities, and community engagement that will significantly enhance the learning opportunities for children in these schools, demonstrating what is possible for children from low-income communities to achieve given the right opportunities.

Currently,



Akanksha runs 21 schools in partnership with the government in Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur and aims to start more schools in the next academic year.

Overview of the Social Work team:
The approach of the social work team is "to support and empower children to lead protected, healthy, and happy lives through strong partnerships that enrich the child’s environment.” The social workers support and empower children by working closely with the parents to increase their investment in their child’s life—education, health, and emotional well-being—bettering the lives children lead in the community. This is done through community awareness drives, partnering with other organizations, and initiating projects in the community; focusing on the health of children through medical camps, offering guidance for medical concerns, and increasing awareness in children and their parents about health, hygiene, and sanitation; capacity building of the School Man

📌 School Social Worker (Nagpur)
🏢 The Akanksha Foundation
📍 Nagpur