Azim Premji Foundation

About Azim Premji Foundation: Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that has been working for more than a decade now towards making deep, large scale and institutionalized impact on the quality and equity of education in India, along with related development areas. Any large scale educational change requires significant and sustained effort over many decades and can only be achieved through working at multiple levels as well as on several areas simultaneously. The Foundation today works in 6 States and 1 Union Territory which together have more than 3, 50,000 government schools. Azim Premji Foundation works in collaboration with State Governments and engages with teachers, teacher educators, head teachers, block and cluster level education officials, senior government functionaries and policy makers at the state and national level. The Foundation has several District Institutes within these states, each having dedicated teams. These Institutes work at the grass root level, closely engaging with the government education system. The range of work they do spans capacity building of teachers, head teachers and other functionaries at the district and state level. It also involves work on curriculum, assessment, policy issues and advocacy at the state level. At six of the District Institutes, Azim Premji Schools have been established to provide quality education to the children of the local community, and serve as 'demonstration schools'.