Akshara High School
Akshara High School began with the concept of creating a friendly environment for the education of children in the vicinity of their homes. Over the past seventeen years we have successfully developed ourselves as a ‘Neighbourhood School’ in Kandivili, Mumbai.
Akshara was founded in 2005 by the (VSPM). The school’s motto is to focus on social inclusion for educational and economic growth and to level inequalities ingrained due to gender, caste, economic and religious discrimination. Education in today’s economic realities is an expensive option for parents of young children. While we aim to provide education at par with the foremost educational institutions in India, we cannot make the process of education expensive and inaccessible to people from the middle and economically weaker strata of society. So to make education affordable and accessible, the fee structure at the school has been kept at a basic minimum. Keeping the above in mind, the School has to provide the funds for the infrastructure, educational material as well as better pay scales for teaching and non-teaching staff.
Akshara receives no grants or funding from government agencies. Currently all funds are being raised through fees, but these are insufficient to meet the actual expenses towards providing the required infrastructure and running costs of the school. We are determined to provide subsidized education that can cater to all sections of society and to achieve this we seek funding from institutions in the form of grants and collaborations.seventeen years
Akshara Foundation of Arts & Learning •AFAL
ART
FIRST
SCHOOL!
Focusing on development via holistic learning through the arts, workshops, publications, films, research.
ART FIRST
SCHOOL!
Focusing on development via holistic learning through the arts, workshops, publications, films, research.
We are also supported by Akshara Foundation of Arts & Learning which regularly sponsors and manages art-programmes, events and facilities at Akshara. AFAL is a not-for- profit trust established with the aim of integrating education and the arts. Akshara is one of the initiatives supported by AFAL apart from varied projects focusing on development of the arts, workshops, publications, films, research and other activities. The Trust is registered under societies Registration Act 1860 and also under Bombay Public Trust Act 1950.
Aims & Mission
01
The education imparted aims at promoting the growth and integration of all facets of the child’s personality, in an ambience of Indian culture, by providing quality education and opportunities for excellence to all.
02
To enable students to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes through an activity and inquiry-based learning programme
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To develop student potential
04
To learn to respect cultural diversity and secular values. To sensitise children to appreciate our cultural heritage, with a special emphasis on the culture of the community in and around the school.
05
To develop concern for the needs of others and compassion towards fellow humans.
06
To create awareness of the environment and their responsibility to conserve it.
Team
Meet our managing team, Over the past eleven years we have successfully developed ourselves as a ‘Neighborhood School’ in Kandivali, Mumbai.
