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Kabir Foundation · India
Education that lets people question, learn and act together
We work with children, youth, women and communities so that learning is not something delivered to people, but something they take part in — and use to change what is unjust around them.
“Where there is knowledge, there is dharma; where there is ignorance, there is destruction.” — attributed to Sant Kabir
Who We Are
A foundation built by educators, for a more equal society
Kabir Foundation is a non-profit organization established by a group of educators and socially committed individuals who recognized the need for meaningful engagement with the educational and social challenges of our time.
Inspired by Kabir's vision of a society rooted in equality, justice, critical inquiry and compassion, we believe that education is a transformative process that enables individuals and communities to question, learn, collaborate and act.
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What We Do
Three areas of work, one idea of education
Each programme is designed with the people it serves, tested in the field, and documented openly so it can be questioned and improved.
How We Work
Four commitments we hold ourselves to
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With, not for
Programmes are designed with teachers, parents and community members — never handed down to them.
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Context first
What works in one district may fail in the next. We begin by listening, then adapt what we build.
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Evidence, openly
We measure honestly, publish our methods and our misses, and let others use the material freely.
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Dignity throughout
No child, woman or community is treated as a beneficiary to be counted. Participation is the point.
Why Kabir
A weaver who taught people to think for themselves
Kabir was a fifteenth-century weaver-poet whose verses refused every boundary that was handed to him — of caste, of creed, of learned authority. He wrote in the language ordinary people spoke, and he asked his listeners to test every claim against their own experience rather than accept it because someone important had said it.
That is exactly what good education does. It gives people the confidence and the tools to ask why — and then the company of others to do something about the answer. We take our name from that tradition, and the interlaced threads in our emblem from his loom.
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Latest from the field
Kabir Foundation opens applications for its first cohort of reading circles
Community reading circles for children in Classes 3 to 5 will begin this term. Schools, panchayats and parent groups can now write in to host a circle in their neighbourhood.
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A three-day teachers’ workshop on questioning in the classroom
Government-school teachers came together to work through what changes when a lesson begins with a genuine question instead of an answer to be copied down.
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Women’s learning collectives take shape in three villages
Weekly collectives combining functional literacy, rights awareness and savings discipline have begun, facilitated by women from the same villages.
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Whether you give an hour a week, a classroom, a grant or a contribution — it becomes the same thing: a child who can read, a woman who can claim what is hers, a teacher who is not alone.