WIEF STUDY TOUR OF AGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

Agastya International Foundation is an Indian educational non-profit organisation based in Bangalore, India whose mission is to spark curiosity, nurture creativity and build confidence among economically disadvantaged children and teachers in rural India.

Agastya has a Creativity Lab located on its 172-acre campus in Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh and over 100 Mobile Labs and 45 Science Centres all over India. It has implemented programmes for over 5 million children) and 200,000 teachers, from vulnerable and economically disadvantaged communities.

Agastya has been awarded with several awards and merits, including the Google Impact Award and the Clinton Global Initiative. The Prime Minister’s National Knowledge Commission has recommended the Agastya model for a nationwide scale up whilst the Rockefeller Foundation has nominated the organisation to a list of 100 Global Innovators.

The aim of the Study Tour is to learn and explore the possibility of replicating the programme to transform and stimulate the thinking of underprivileged children and teachers, elsewhere in the world especially in poor and other disadvantaged communities.