Devi Sansthan (Dignity Education Vision International)

District

East Kameng

Karimnagar

Vidisha

Nandurbar

Barabanki

Bahraich

Sonbhadra

Reasi

Udham Singh Nagar

Haridwar

Dehradun

Unnao

Lucknow

Shimla

Ranchi

Solan

Chitrakoot

Baramulla

Shamli

Rajouri

Balrampur - UP

Siddharth Nagar

States

Arunachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Jharkhand

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Uttar Pradesh

Uttarakhand

Jammu and Kashmir

Telangana

ALfA, Accelerating Learning for All, is DEVI Sansthan’s flagship foundational literacy and numeracy program designed to help children rapidly acquire basic reading, writing, comprehension, and arithmetic skills. The program supports students, especially in Grades 1 to 5, through a low-cost, classroom-ready, activity-based, and child-led paired learning methodology.

ALfA uses the MAT process: Model, Apply, and Transfer. Teachers first demonstrate a task with children, after which students practise in rotating pairs, create and answer questions, peer-check each other’s work, and continue learning independently. This approach improves participation, confidence, inclusion, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, and classroom ownership.

The program is implemented through government school systems with teacher training, Teaching-Learning Material distribution, baseline and endline assessments, regular monitoring, field support, and system-level mentoring. It is designed to work within existing school routines without creating a parallel delivery structure.

ALfA has been implemented across multiple states and districts in India and has also been piloted internationally. The program aims to address the foundational learning crisis by enabling visible learning gains within a short implementation cycle of around 45 working days. Through partnerships with governments, CSR partners, and philanthropic institutions, ALfA supports large-scale improvement in foundational learning outcomes and contributes to long-term system strengthening in public education.

District

South 24 Parganas

Murshidabad

Udham Singh Nagar

Tehri Garhwal

Dehradun

Uttar Kashi

States

West Bengal

Uttarakhand

A women’s literacy and community transformation programme in partnership with IIMPACT that uses the ALfA paired-learning method to help women and girls develop basic reading, writing, numeracy and life skills. The programme supports functional literacy for everyday needs such as signing names, reading simple information, understanding health and financial matters and supporting children’s education.

District

Ranchi

States

Jharkhand

The Ranchi ALfA (FLN) NIPUN Project is a focused foundational literacy and numeracy initiative by DEVI Sansthan for children in Grades 1–3 across 506 government primary schools in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The project will benefit 36,000+ children, train and certify around 1,500 teachers, and support schools through ALfA learning kits, baseline assessments, teacher capacity building, classroom implementation, monitoring, endline evaluation, and impact reporting.

This project is proposed through a Zero Coupon Zero Principal (ZCZP) public issue on the BSE Social Stock Exchange, with an issue size of ₹1.11 crore and a 12-month implementation period. DEVI Sansthan is the first NGO from Uttar Pradesh registered on the BSE Social Stock Exchange, and this initiative is positioned as the first standalone public issue on BSE SSE. The ZCZP structure is designed for transparent and regulated social giving, where contributors receive measurable social impact rather than financial return.