Akanksha After-School Centers

Summary: Akanksha provides non-formal education using existing under-utilized school buildings to children from low-income communities who otherwise would not have access to education. --- The first Akanksha After-School Center was established to provide slum children who were not in formal schooling with an opportunity to obtain education using existing, under-utilized resources. Continuing that same principle today, Akanksha runs 46 no-fee education centers in school buildings after formal school lets out and the space is not being used. Classes run for three hours a day, five days a week, and accommodate up to 60 economically disadvantaged, out-of-school children. The Akanksha curriculum is founded on three core subjects of Englis...