A powerful poster campaign, combined with rallies and community meetings, has sparked a grassroots movement in Kharagpur-1 Block against child marriage and child labour. With Panchayat leaders, ASHA and Anganwadi workers taking ownership, the campaign has led to zero teenage pregnancies in Kashijora in the last 3 months and six child marriages stopped in Kalaikunda. […]

ASPIRE’s Community Education Resource Centres (CERCs) in Odisha and Jharkhand are transforming remote villages into digital learning hubs—offering children academic support, skilling opportunities for youth, and essential e-services for communities. With 173 centers already established, many are moving towards self-sustainability while creating real-life success stories like Kusunu Munda, who went from a remote village in […]

A team from the University of Notre Dame visited ASPIRE’s project areas to study innovative approaches in rural education and community empowerment. From June 15–26, 2025, a research team from the University of Notre Dame, USA visited ASPIRE’s intervention areas in Odisha as part of their global I-Lab study on universal school enrolment and Child […]