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The cheapest thing you can buy is a child’s next school year

In practice that means

Most children who drop out do not leave because they stopped caring. They leave because a notebook ran out, a bag broke, or a uniform stopped fitting — and nobody replaced it.

Sponsor a school kit — ₹450How the programme runs
📚3,100+ school kits distributed🏫38 government schools reached👧62% of recipients are girls📈₹450 cost of one complete kit📍46 villages & bastis covered
The problem, stated plainly

Nobody drops out on a Monday morning.

It happens quietly, over a term. A missed week here. A borrowed pencil there. Then the shame of turning up unprepared becomes bigger than the fear of not turning up at all.

We have sat in these classrooms. The teachers are not the problem — most of them are doing extraordinary work with almost nothing. The problem is that a government school gives a child a seat and a teacher, and assumes a family earning ₹300 a day will supply everything else.

A complete school kit costs us ₹450. A year of lost schooling costs that child considerably more.

  • We buy new. Nothing second-hand, nothing damaged, nothing anyone would be embarrassed to carry.
  • We give the whole kit. Half a kit is not a kindness — it is a reminder of what is missing.
  • We come back. Same schools, next term. A one-time distribution is a photograph, not a programme.
Children raising their hands during a school kit distribution
₹450one complete kit — the whole reason a child stays
What is actually in the bag

No mystery packets. Here is the exact contents

Priced from our own purchase records. If a supplier rate changes, this page changes.

School bagSturdy, water-resistant, full school-year build ₹180
Notebooks × 6Ruled and squared, as the syllabus requires ₹120
Stationery setPens, pencils, eraser, sharpener, scale, colours ₹80
Geometry box & suppliesFor upper-primary students ₹45
Water bottleThe item most quietly missing in every class ₹25
One complete school kit₹450
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How a school year runs with us

Jun

Session opens

Kits delivered in the first fortnight, before the child falls behind.

Sep

Mid-term top-up

Notebooks replenished. This is the month most drop-outs actually begin.

Dec

Winter & exam support

Warm clothing plus exam stationery, delivered together.

Mar

Attendance review

We ask the teacher who is still coming. That number is our real result.

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We had three hundred children and no budget for kits. They came, they counted, and two weeks later they came back with three hundred kits. No conditions, no banner ceremony demanded.

Bhavesh RathodHead Teacher, government primary school
Fund a kit

₹450 today, or a decade later

Sponsor one kit, a whole class, or an entire school. Tell us the number and we will tell you which school needs it most this term.

  • ₹450 — one complete kit for one child
  • ₹4,500 — ten children, an entire classroom row
  • ₹22,500 — fifty children, most of a village school
  • ₹1,35,000 — three hundred children, an entire school covered for the year
Companies: school kit sponsorship is one of the cleanest CSR line items there is — countable, photographable and fully 80G compliant. Talk to us about a CSR proposal

Sponsor school kits

Pick an amount — we will show you what it becomes.

80G receipt issued for every donation.

Education questions

What supporters ask about this programme

Government primary schools in the villages and urban settlements we already serve, prioritised by the head teacher's own assessment of need. Teachers know exactly which children are turning up without materials — we simply ask them and then verify.
Yes. The kit belongs to the child, not the school. We hand it to the child directly, in front of their class, because how something is given matters as much as what is given.
It happens occasionally, and it tells us that family needed money more urgently than a bag — which is useful information. Those households usually get referred into our ration or elder care programme. We do not punish poverty.
Yes. Tell us the area and we will match you with a school there, or tell you honestly if we do not yet work in that location rather than pretending we do.
Not in this programme — government primary schooling is free, so fees are not the barrier. Fee support is part of our Orphan Support programme, where it genuinely is the barrier.
You will receive photographs from the actual distribution your donation funded, with the school and date. We will not send you a child's full name and school together, for their protection.
Yes, if it is new and complete. Mixed second-hand stationery creates more sorting work than value. If you want to donate goods, our in-kind form tells you exactly what we can use.
We ask the teacher, at the end of the year, how many of the children we supplied are still attending. That number — not the number of kits given — is what we hold ourselves to.
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