Foster and Forge Foundation

Foster and Forge Foundation seeks to transform the lives of millions of school children by bolstering their education with the relevant life skills to Read more succeed in school and beyond. We do this by working with the government school teachers in collaboration with the government and partner organisations to foster positive learning environments. Founded by Meghna Chawla in 2015, Foster & Forge Foundation is a non-profit, Section 8 company. We are currently working closely with 3 local governments, on strategically chosen demonstration sites. Over the years, we have impacted over 3500 teachers and more than lac and a half children across all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh by 2022. With strategic clarity in the academic year 2023, we have moved to a cost-efficient, high touch point model of demo-sites in zones of our intervention, as well as, we have expanded to neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttarakhand. Foster and Forge (FNF) is part of a larger movement in education to supplement foundational literacy and numeracy by enabling teachers to equip students with the life-skills and mindsets needed to succeed in life. The fellowship design for government school teachers helps them learn the Design thinking approach with the teaching tool FLUX (Copyrighted by FNF) and practices that encourage children to discover their own strengths, build empathy and become problem solvers. Mentoring support enables these teachers to become catalysts of change in their school system and their communities. By becoming a trusted partner of the local government and working closely with all stakeholders in the school education delivery value chain, i.e., state officials, district and block level officials, schools and parents, Foster and Forge hopes to inculcate FLUX design approaches across teaching in the school and integrate it into the everyday syllabus and curriculum plan at the state level.