Our School Projects

Baljeet Nagar School

Our flagship school is an education center for the local neighbourhood children of Baljeet Nagar, New Delhi. The school is run by Sonu Kaur, an amazing and inspiring woman who is dedicated to helping women and children create a bright future by providing them with education.

Our children receive an education in the local language in most major subjects as well as English lessons from volunteers, art and drawing. We currently have 60 children attending classes at our school. 

Nehru Nagar Slum School

Our second school, which is located inside the Prem Negar slum area is a school we have been involved with since 2012. Here we provide an education to around 60 children who live in the slum area. Classes are help from 3:00pm-5:00pm, Monday - Friday. These students recieve a basic education in Hindi, Maths and English. Most of the children attending classes here come from very poor backgrounds and do not recieve any other form of education; they range from 4-14 years old, many of them having to work during the day before coming attending our classes in the afternoon. Our fantastic teacher is Miss Pooja Singh, who is a former student of ours turned teacher at our school, grew up in the Prem Negar area.

Zakheera Slum School

In the Zakheera slum area, also known as Khada, nearly all of the children we are teaching receive no other form of formal education. They come from extremely impoverished backgrounds, most of whom are working for the family to help provide them with enough income to put food on the table. Many of the families of the children are migrants from other parts of India such as Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. They move to New Delhi in hope of work and a better future, but many are forced to live in slum areas and struggle to find enough income to feed their families.

By teaching these children and their parents to realise the importance of education, we hope to contribute to breaking the cycle of poverty in the Zakheera Slum area.

Daya Basti Slum School

The Daya Basti slum consists of temporary housing shelters provided by the government. Very impoverished, many of the families in Daya Basti work in puppetry, making puppets and putting on shows. As a result, many families in this area actively distance themselves and their children from education, especially girls. Because these children, particularly girls, have little access to formal education, they are denied equal opportunities in the future. That’s why it’s so important for Thriveseed to provide the basic tools for their success.  We also provide clothing and food a few times a week to the children living in these slums. The reality is that for many children here, food and clothing is not a given.