Causes: Education, International, International Relief, Primary & Elementary Schools, Secondary & High Schools

Mission: The Shanti Bhavan school is a residential school exclusively for children born into India’s lowest social and economic class. The project offers free, high-quality education at its residential school and subsequently at top-tier colleges. Shanti Bhavan provides each child with complete care: education, clothing, medical and a home. This is 17 years of intense intervention per child – from age 4 to 21 – to break the cycle of poverty in a single generation. It is the only non-profit education program of its type in the world.

Results: Our success is unprecedented. Each year, all of our 12th grade graduates have received high scores on the India School Certificate exams and have been accepted into top-tier universities across India. Furthermore, Shanti Bhavan’s college graduates are now working full-time at firms like Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz, J. P. Morgan, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte. 50% of our children are girls and the opportunities they have received have empowered these young women to attain top jobs, high-salaries and equal rights. Each Shanti Bhavan graduate from college will earn more in 5 years of work at a top multinational company than what their parents will earn in a lifetime. Every single Shanti Bhavan graduate now gives back 10%-50% of their salary to their families, communities and other children in need. Soon, each Shanti Bhavan graduate will uplift 100 others, creating a powerful multiplicative impact throughout society. These are children who originally came from slums and ramshackle huts. Similar successes have never been seen before in the field of non-profit education, and it marks Shanti Bhavan as a one-of-a-kind program.

Target demographics: impoverished children break the cycle of poverty through high quality education

Geographic areas served: India

Programs: the Shanti Bhavan school.