Today, over 25 millions children in India do not receive any schooling.

Even though in 1960, the Government of India had decided constitutionally that schooling for children till the age of 14 will be free and compulsory, today the cost of a child to attend school can represent months of salary for a family with 2 children. Boys education is privileged over girls’.

The quality of infrastructures and of teaching are, in most cases, of a very poor level. In some villages, where there is no infrastructure at all, children attend school in a little room, in which animals are kept. In other schools, some rooms are not only for teaching purposes, but are used as shops, groceries, police offices, shelters for cattle, etc...

Over 82% of the established schools need serious repairs: wholes in the roof, make the teaching impossible during monsoon season.

The teacher-student ratio is between 1:50 to 1:500. Some schools only have one teacher. The little number of professors, their high level of absenteeism and a teaching conduct which is more about control and discipline, the desire for children to attend school is very weak, sometimes non-existent.

Salaries of most teachers are below the requisite level and working conditions are very difficult.

To improve schooling, we need:

1. A teacher-student ratio of 1:25
   

1. Access to a school on a radius of 1 km from any residential area
   

1. Qualified teachers
   

1. Certified school infrastructures
   

How?

1. Support school fees, food facilities, uniforms and material for children, in existing  infrastructures with a high quality of teaching and a proper environment.
   

1. Build proper school premises and organize school buses