LeAD UR India Fellowship Become a Community Teacher Champion

LeAD UR India Program:

Learning Initiatives for India (LIFI), through its flagship program LeAD UR India (Leadership and Development in Urban and Rural India), is committed to improving educational outcomes for children from marginalized communities, especially those out of or at risk of being pushed out of the formal education system. The program aligns with Schedule VII of the CSR policy framework and focuses on enabling access to local community-based teaching resources.

Our vision—“पढ़ेगा हर बच्चा, बढ़ेगा हर बच्चा” (Every Child Thriving)—is pursued through the mission “हर घर टीचर, हर बच्चे तक टीचर” (Every household with a teacher). By 2027, LIFI aims to ensure that 10,000 children in underserved areas are supported by trained Community Teacher Leaders (CTLs) to re-enter and thrive in the education system.

The children who LIFI works with are in either of the following dimensions:

1. Never enrolled in schools (children in brick kilns, Sonipat, Haryana)
2. Dropped (pushed) out of schools (children in village Adampura, Khargone) 
3. At-risk of dropping (being pushed) out of schools (Delhi, Purkhas Rathi (Haryana), Village Dalka, Khargone, MP) 

LeAD UR India Program – LIFI addresses the multifaceted challenges in the education system through the Leadership and Development in Urban & Rural India (LeAD UR India) Program, empowering local youth and community champions as Community Teacher Leaders (CTLs) to reintegrate and support children at risk. It is a paid two-years program where CTLs are mentored and equipped to work with the children and ensure their mainstreaming and retention in the education system. The program also gets extended beyond two years for youth who are interested to work in LIFI as teacher leaders of their own communities.

LIFI CTLs are equipped to work in all spaces that help shape the children’s educational journey through targeted interventions: communities, livelihood sites and Government schools. 

LIFI Intervention Modes:

For Migrants,

LIFI makes sure that the children are supported not only at the livelihood sites (brick kilns), but they are also visited and supported at their source villages. LIFI keeps a goal of ensuring educational continuity for 30% of the seasonal migrant children.