| Bharti Airtel Foundation | |
| Type: | NGO |
| Founded Date: | 2000 |
| Founder: | Sunil Mittal |
| Location: | Airtel Center, Gurgaon |
| Key People: | Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman), Rakesh Bharti Mittal (Co-Chairman) |
| Area Served: | India |
| Focus: | The foundation has been working across areas of primary, secondary and higher education in India with an aim to transform the lives of underprivileged children and young people and help them realize their true potential. |
| Headquarters: | Gurugram |
| Owner: | Bharti Enterprises |
| Homepage: | http://www.bhartiairtelfoundation.org |
| Website: | https://bhartiairtelfoundation.org/ |
Bharti Airtel Foundation (Formerly Bharti Foundation), the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises started its operations in the year 2000, with a vision- to help underprivileged children and youth of our country realize their true potential.’
The Foundation has been working in the space of holistic quality education in rural India with a special focus on girl child; and also supports Higher Education programs in partnership with premier institutions.
Vision: To help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.
Mission: Committed to creating and supporting programs that bring about sustainable changes through education and the use of technology.
Reach:
Total Reach Since Inception: 26,00,000+ Students across 27,000+ Schools and impacting an additional 31,00,000+ members of local communities.
The Foundation consistently works to realize its vision, mission and goals in collaboration and partnership with its stakeholders, including government, corporate sector and rural community.
Education
The schools provide free quality education including free uniform, education material, nutritious mid-day meals, etc. to the underprivileged children in rural India. The schools focus on inculcating strong value system in children with emphasis on holistic education through vibrant classrooms and pedagogy that is experiential, and has project & activity integrated learning, story-based pedagogy, value education, community-initiatives and edtech interventions. The five senior secondary schools are in Public-Private Partnership with the Punjab government (PEDB) and all schools have a pre-primary class for foundational learning. Since inception, the program has impacted 1.72+ lakh students, 7,000+ teachers and approximately eight lakh community members.
Quality Support Program (QSP) Initiated in 2013, the program 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. Due to regular trainings, teachers have been able to bring innovation in teaching methodologies. Structured PTMs resulted in increased parent involvement. Program’s intent leads to partner government schools experiencing an improvement in overall school-quality.
The Teacher App
Recently the Bharti Airtel Foundation launched teachers’ platform, TheTeacherApp with the aim to “help teachers uplift their schools”. The foundation believes that happy & energized schools, engaged teachers, students and parents are key to school-transformation. The focal point of The Teacher App is to empower teachers, school leaders and educationists with high quality, engaging content.
Scholarship Program
Bharti Airtel Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, launched a merit-cum-means scholarship program in July 2024 that will fully fund students in technology-based engineering undergraduate and integrated courses in top 50 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) colleges, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).[1] [2]
Launched to mark 25 years of the Bharti Airtel Foundation, the program aims to support deserving students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds and will be applicable to students eligible for admissions in August 2024. The scholarship will be provided to students whose family income doesn't exceed ₹850,000 a year.[3]
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