Education is the right of every child. Every child under the age of 16 should have access to free and quality education. It is our endeavor to ensure that every child receives this right. While ILP targets both rural and urban communities, our priority is in rural areas where the developmental work by the state is minimal.

ILP funds projects of the following types:

• Back To School: These programs ensure that children who have either dropped out of or never enrolled in schools can go back to school again. This is achieved through
  • Evening Schools - Non-Formal Education (NFE) centers
  • All-Day Bridge Schools
  • Residential Bridge School Programs
  • Early Childhood Education Centers (Balwadis, Anganwadis)
• Strengthening Mainstream Education: The aim is to improve the quality of learning to prevent drop-outs and low levels of literacy. We accomplish this through
  • Community mobilization towards ownership and management of schools
  • Training of the para teachers for schools
  • Providing supplementary teaching for school-going children
  • Focusing on Quality of Education
• Functional Adult Literacy Programs: At ILP, we believe that all adults have a right to receive functional literacy skills that would enable them to develop their full potential as human beings, good citizenship, participative democracy and to learn appropriate skills to enhance individual capacity and productivity. Literate adults are also more likely to keep their children in school. Our programs focus on
  • Literacy-cum-skill training
  • Entrepreneurship development
• Mass Literacy Initiatives: ILP is supporting new initiatives intended to raise literacy levels over large geographic areas (state, district or block). These integrated education/literacy programs address children from 0 to 14 years, and non-literates in the productive age group of 15-35 years. These programs ensure effective utilitzation of government resources, and educate and empower the community to take ownership of ensuring that every child is in school and learning.