About Us
Why we do what we do?
We actively monitor and support partner schools to drive measurable improvements in admissions, academic performance, and parent satisfaction. Our approach goes beyond immediate needs, focusing on long-term outcomes through continuous evaluation and feedbacks.
In addition to learning support, we fund and facilitate the development of essential infrastructure such as girls’ toilets, libraries, computer labs, and internet access to create safe and enabling learning environments.
We also sponsor teacher training programs, cultural initiatives, and sports activities to encourage holistic development. All our efforts are aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4, promoting inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve the quality of free education in rural areas, to empower children from low income homes to excel in their education.
Our Goals
● Equal opportunity for all:
We try to reach children in remote places and provide them with an opportunity for quality education. We currently focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals #SDG4 – Quality Education. By providing skilled teachers for subjects like Mathematics, English and Science, we not only help increase the admission to the schools, but also help the rest of the staff to focus on what they are trained to teach. This improves the results drastically thereby attracting more students to the school.
● Rural development:
While rural communities will benefit from better quality of free education, we also want to transform and empower communities in villages through participatory rural development. We aim to achieve this transformation by partnering with communities, industry and enterprise on various high impact projects like sustainability, climate change, health & hygiene, agriculture etc.
● Experiential learning:
Avakaasha encourages experiential learning in children, our focus is on active learning. We also focus on improving the communication skills of students in Kannada and English. We understand that sports also plays a major role in overall development of children. Hence the Foundation also sponsors awards for sports events and sponsor student participation in various sports.
● Basic infrastructure:
In addition to ensuring the schools have sufficient teaching staff, Foundation also provides funds to build basic infrastructure required in schools, such as toilets, library, classrooms, computer labs, internet conectivity etc.
Our Team
Avakaasha is run by a small team working remotely, with a big support from volunteers and donors.
Shreepad Kuthyar
Being from rural background Shreepad understood the need to support children from rural areas. He started Avakaasha Foundation to provide quality education to children in remote, rural parts of Karnataka, India.