By Saumya Saxena, LGT Impact Fellow for Varthana, India What do you want to learn from this fellowship? ... Andrew Papp asked me during my LGT Impact Fellowship interview. As…more

LGT Impact Fellow Spotlight: Smiti Sahoo Smiti is working as a Fellow for our Portfolio Organisation Varthana in India. Thinking of Schools, the initial associations that come up are academic…more

by Prianka Sharma - LGT Impact Fellow 2017 A 4 hour journey from Indore in the wee hours of the morning and we arrived in Pipal Tola – a village…more

by Kausha Shah - LGT Impact Fellow 2017 Bundi- my last frontier. On my assignment interviewing Educate Girls’ stakeholders, I had already travelled to Udaipur, Pali and Jhabua. I had…more

On the 4th of November I went for the second time to the Govandi slum in Mumbai. Govandi is situated next to one of the biggest and oldest garbage dumping…more

After more than 10 years I found myself in a classroom again, surrounded by more than thirty 14 to 17-years-old. I was participating in a very important meeting, a celebration…more

A field visit and the importance of the context A few months ago, I travelled to the district of Pali, Rajasthan, for my first field visit. It was an essential…more

David Hayman (United Kingdom) works as Program Expansion Fellow at Educate Girls in India which focuses on improving girls’ enrolment, retention and academic performance in government schools. Educate Girls volunteer…more

I take the local train to go to work every day. The most heart-breaking part of my trip is Mahim Junction. In this particular area, every day I see half…more

On February 28th the Indian Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, presented the Union Budget for 2015-16. To quote trak.in, “the budget 2015-16 has been widely hailed as a #SuperBudget, which will…more