Bharti Foundation enters into a partnership with Basic Education Department, Uttar Pradesh to support Government Schools
Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, today signed an MoU with Basic Education Department, Uttar Pradesh. Under the MoU, Bharti Foundation will provide technical support to the State Resource Teams under Large Scale Initiative (including training of the resource people with relevant material including digital content as required. In addition, it will support Government initiatives under Satya Bharti Quality Support Program directly with the select government schools in the state by hand – holding the implementation of co-scholastic initiatives for the students.
Bharti Foundation’s Satya Bharti Quality Support Program (QSP) aims to transform partner Government schools into vibrant institutions of learning through co-scholastic interventions in collaboration with school leadership. The Program’s framework is defined under four pillars – students’ empowerment, school leadership & teachers’ engagement, parents & community involvement and improving school’s overall environment. It has impacted 4.9+ lakh students, nearly 19,000 teachers from 1,200+ schools since inception and led to positive outcomes with affirmative change in students’ behavior, their holistic growth, improvement in their life-skills, increased regularity in the school, to name a few. Following the success of QSP, the Foundation was invited by several education officers at district and state level to scale up some of the initiatives under Large Scale Initiative (LSI). This program has impacted 1.9 million students and 1.2+ lakh teachers from more than 24,000 schools and 1,000 resource persons since inception.
Ms Mamta Saikia, CEO, Bharti Foundation, expressed deep gratitude for the invaluable support provided by the government officials from UP. She stated, “We are immensely grateful for the Education Department’s unwavering trust in Bharti Foundation’s significant contributions through our education programs implemented over the years. This collaboration stands as a testament to our shared belief in fostering holistic development for students, especially through our Satya Bharti Quality Support Program and Large Scale Initiatives. We look forward to working with an incredibly supportive team.”
Bharti Foundation started their Satya Bharti School program in UP in 2007, currently, they have three schools in Farrukhabad and nine in Shahjahanpur district. Today, more than 2700 children, 59% being girls, are accessing free and quality education at these schools. Majority of the parents of these children belong to underprivileged families, mostly occupied in daily wage work or as agricultural labourers.