Every young person deserves a quiet place to study.
India has 1 public library for every 30,000 people. In many districts, students pay for private reading rooms or study wherever there is light.
The YouthPOWER library campaign makes the gap visible and gives citizens a way to ask their MP for action: a library in every block, a reading room in every panchayat.
See the campaign:
https://youthpower.in/campaigns/libraries
MEET RUCHI 🏅
India is home to the world’s largest youth population, yet opportunity remains unequal across its 800 districts.
#McNultyCatalystFund Awardee Ruchi Gupta is addressing this gap through YouthPOWER, a platform of Future of India Foundation (@foifaction ) that defines, measures, and activates youth opportunity by linking data to elected representatives and district action.
YouthPOWER provides standardized opportunity scores across all districts by consolidating data from over 20 government databases.
📊 Read the impact story and join us for a dialogue with Ruchi on April 28. Links in bio.
The Pehli Peedi Fellowship: stories of first-generation students from across the country.
Vishal Sitra, 18 years old: "Many students feel alone or helpless due to financial issues. I didn’t even know about this university in Bhopal until someone told me. A lot of people have helped me reach here. Others should get that chance too. I have two younger sisters. I am the first in my family to attend university. I want to encourage the younger people around me to go to college.”
Link in bio.
