One Billion Literates Foundation

Empowering transformations in rural communities

The One Billion Literates Foundation is dedicated to transforming the lives of rural communities through a systemic focus on primary education, public health, developing socio-economic capacity for women, and rehabilitating the severely poor.

We are on a mission to

Provide

Provide quality education to children and sustained healthcare support to people from socio-economically weaker sections of society in rural Bangalore.

Leverage

Leverage the intersectionality of education, healthcare, and empowerment of rural women to build a progressive community.

Engage

Engage, employ and build agency in women from rural communities to address the massive learning and healthcare disparities, thereby creating an equitable platform for sociology economic development.

Our programs

Elevate

Elevate is the flagship program of the foundation that provides a comprehensive learning program in English literacy for primary school children studying in rural government schools.

Kickstart

Kickstart is a unified program delivery system that identifies and trains semi-educated women from within the communities that OBLF engages with. These women are then subsequently employed as either community teachers at OBLF schools or as frontline health workers in the public health initiatives. Over the last 12 years, OBLF has trained and skilled more than 350 women, and currently employs close to a hundred of these women in its programs across Education and Healthcare.

Nurture

OBLF’s Nurture program works closely with highly marginalized communities by identifying and focusing on critical elements, such as education, healthcare, and sanitation to enable a better standard of living for the community.

Remedy

The mission of the Remedy program is to ensure sustainable and equitable healthcare access for highly marginalized rural communities, and reduce non-communicable diseases through curative, preventive and palliative support.