Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of Canada

Ekal runs 80,000 schools that help educate over 2.1 million underprivileged children in tribal and rural areas of India. Ekal is a registered Canadian charity engaged in the education of tribal, indigenous children in rural India and Nepal. It is the largest grassroots movement for rural education in the world. The term 'Ekal Vidyalaya' simply means single teacher schools. The global Ekal movement aims to help eradicate illiteracy from rural and tribal areas of India and Nepal. A contribution of CAD $700 helps run one Ekal school for an entire year, educates 30 children, and has a positive impact on 30 rural families. Ekal's mission is the holistic development of villages through the empowerment of tribal and rural communities in India with basic education, digital literacy, skill development, health awareness, learning modern and productive agricultural practices and rural entrepreneurship. Ekal Vidyalaya is a people's movement with a vision to facilitate the process of empowering rural and tribal communities based on the concept of social, economic and gender equality. Ekal Vidyalaya is a one-teacher school primarily in the remote tribal villages where often there are not even the basic necessities of life such as roads, hospitals, schools, clean water etc. A school consists of 25 to 40 children and there are no formal school buildings. A blackboard, teacher and students form the classroom. Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of Canada was registered as an Ontario Corporation in 2006 and attained Canadian charitable status in 2007. Charity Registration Number (Canada): 853421162RR0001 Ekal Canada website: www.ekal.ca