Bharti Foundation | Free Education in India

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WELCOME TO BHARTI FOUNDATION
BHARTI FOUNDATION, the philanthropic arm of
Bharti Enterprises was established in 2000 with a
vision "To help underprivileged children and
young people of our country realize their
potential". BHARTI FOUNDATION, is an organization
established under the Laws of India with
charitable status pursuant to a "Deed of
Trust".(Read More)
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Free Education in India
Bharti Airtel Foundation is the philanthropic arm
of Bharti(Airtel) Enterprises that provides free
and quality education to Underprivileged children
from marginalised groups in India through its
flagship rural education initiative - The Satya
Bharti School Program in Punjab, India.
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Rural Free Education
Rural Education - Education in India is provided
by public schools and private schools. Under
various articles of the Indian Constitution.
 rural children by providing affordable,
high-quality education. ... of students on free
education through donations from our scholarship
program.
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SATYA BHARTI LEARNING CENTRE PROGRAM

• Satya Bharti Learning Centre Program was started
  in 2013, with the aim of identifying and
  mainstreaming Out-of-School Children at primary
  level, in the rural areas of India, by offering
  remedial/ bridge courses in collaboration with
  the Government.
• As part of the program, children in remote
  villages, who had never been to school or had
  dropped-out were identified and admitted in
  Government schools. Compensatory education to
  these children was provided to bridge the
  learning gaps such that they could get absorbed
  in age-appropriate grades.
• The success of this program can be credited to
  the joint and collaborative action of the
  Foundation, government, community partners and
  teachers at different levels of its functioning.
  It achieved what it set out for - to create and
  bring the Out-of-School Children into the
  mainstream and offer them equal opportunity
  through quality education, free of charge. As the
  program gets integrated into the Satya Bharti
  Quality Support Program, the endeavors to reform
  and contribute to the rural education will
  continue, as part of the latter.(Read More)

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HIGHER EDUCATION

• Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and
  Management at IIT Delhi
• Bharti Centre for Communication, IIT Bombay
• Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School
  of Business
• Manmohan Singh Bursary Fund
• Partnership with University of Cambridge

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SATYA BHARTI SCHOOL PROGRAM

• Bharti Foundations flagship initiative, the
  Satya Bharti School Program provides free quality
  education to several first generation learners in
  rural India. The program, with a special focus on
  the girl child, aims to deliver transformative
  education to children so that they become
  educated, responsible and self-reliant citizens
  with a deep sense of commitment to their society.
• Activities within and outside the classrooms are
  given equal importance so that students learn for
  life and from life thereby inculcating in them
  the right values, attitudes, life-skills and
  confidence. Parents, community and like-minded
  organisations are active partners in the schools
  and all the Satya Bharti Schools uphold this way
  of functioning.(Read More)

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SATYA BHARTI QUALITY SUPPORT PROGRAM

• The Satya Bharti Quality Support Program is a
  school-based program which aims to improve the
  overall schooling experience for the students as
  well as the teachers by bringing in mainly
  co-scholastic activities as well as support for
  scholastic work at schools if needed. It
  complements Governments programs to improve
  learning levels by creating institutions where
  all stakeholders including parents are involved
  in creating a change for the better. While the
  Satya Bharti Quality Support Programs framework
  is fairly structured around the whole-school
  approach, it is for each school to decide on the
  speed and trajectory dependent on the School
  leaders vision, with Bharti Foundation playing
  the role of a catalyst.(Read More)

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Bharti Foundation's unique education program
mainstreams 33,816 Out-of-School Children

• A sizeable proportion of the population of the
  children, especially in rural areas, of the
  country still remains Out-of-School. Satya Bharti
  Learning Centre Program was instituted in 2013 to
  augment the objective of universal primary
  education and SSA. The program had been running
  in close collaboration with Educate a Child, a
  global program of the Education Above All
  Foundation which has the objective of
  significantly reducing the number of
  Out-of-School Children (OOSC) worldwide at the
  primary school level.
• The program team identified and mainstreamed
  Out-of-School Children in the rural areas of
  Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand at primary
  level, by offering tailored remedial/ bridge
  courses in collaboration with the government
  to bring the Out-of-School Children back to
  school and offer them equal opportunity through
  quality education.
• As part of the program, children in remote
  villages, who had never been to school or
  drop-out children were identified and admitted in
  government schools. Compensatory education to
  these children was provided to bridge the
  learning gaps in order that they are absorbed in
  age-appropriate grades. (Read More)

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Jharkhand students receive International Award
for teaching all mothers in the community

• Government school students who started Mothers
  Literacy campaign in Jharkhands villages are
  rewarded with the prestigious Gold Award in Group
  category in The 2019 Pramerica - the Spirit of
  Community Awards for their initiative. The
  students are from UMS Khairbani School,
  Kathikund, (Dumka), Jharkhand
• This campaign was selected among nearly 3,500
  entries nationwide. The annual award conferred by
  Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, United
  States recognizes school students for making a
  positive difference. These awards are also
  organized in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland,
  China, Brazil and Poland.
• Under the Mothers Literacy Campaign, the
  students identified illiterate women in the
  village and taught them Hindi alphabets, enabling
  them to write their names and other simple words,
  along with basic numerical ability. In the year
  2018 alone, the initiative succeeded in making 60
  households, (out of nearly 85 household)
  functionally literate in the village.(Read More)

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Technology In Rural Schools

• We are already in the eighteenth year of the 21st
  Century. And, while there is high level of
  acceptability of the role technology can play in
  school education the questions around what
  technology to use and when or, how to overcome
  the issues of accessibility and
  under-representation especially in the rural
  parts of the country continue to take up our mind
  space.
• Working with the 254 village-based Satya Bharti
  Schools of Bharti Foundation, along with over
  2000 Government schools in the deep rural parts
  of our country has given me some amount of
  understanding about the challenges our rural
  schools, teachers and students face on ground. It
  has also made me closely experience the role
  education and technology can play in students
  life, beyond academic milestones. Equity in
  education is paramount and it should help every
  child reach her or his potential and become a
  contributing citizen of the country. How does one
  ensure that every village school provides quality
  education to its students or provides access to
  student-centric technology programs that enable
  learning as a game or, helps navigate complex
  topics using videos or allows personalized
  learning at ones pace. Schools must become a hub
  of technology that starts to dissolve the digital
  divide especially for those millions of children
  who do not have to access to technology at home.
  The problem of accessibility, at times, becomes
  more complex with the aspects related to gender,
  available infrastructure and other social
  issues.(Read More)