Our partners

Through our partnership with the Bharti Foundation, we are teaching English to over 5,500 children in more than 200 rural schools during the 2011/12 Indian academic year.

The Bharti Foundation is the philanthropic arm of an Indian telecommunications conglomerate.  It runs a rural educational initiative, establishing primary and senior secondary schools across rural India. The programme currently runs 242 primary schools and five senior secondary schools in six Indian states, reaching more than 30,000 under-privileged children.

Gray Matters Capital Foundation (GMC), the philanthropic arm of Gray Ghost Ventures in Atlanta, US, is our other major partner. GMC identifies struggling schools and provides them with a one-year voucher worth 20,000 rupees (around £280) to help with the implementation of innovative teaching and learning initiatives. Our relationship with GMC ensures over 1,400  children are learning English in 28 low cost private schools across Delhi and Hyderabad for the 2011/12 Indian academic year.

A key partner in our school access programme is the Centre for Civil Society (CSS), a not-for-profit research and education organisation that has been a pioneering advocate of school reform in India for over a decade. ARK has particularly benefitted from working with CSS's campaigning base of 100 schools.