Underlying our motivation to run a school in an underprivileged area is the belief that great education changes lives; it is a crucial part of sustainable development, enabling people to fulfill their potential and empowering communities to realise the changes they care about.

For us schools aren’t just about reading, writing and arithmetic, but about how education relates to the broader issues of development and empowerment.

We created Hunar Ghar as a space to explore how education and schools can innovate to more strongly relate to the lives and challenges faced by the rural poor, both in terms of the content they cover and methodology used.

As such, we aim to contribute to a reform of rural education for the poor, and a shift from simply ‘Education for All’ using factory schooling methods to a recognition of the rights of marginalised communities for ‘a relevant and useful education for all’.