Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF) Information

Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF), an inclusive non-profit organization, runs a network of seven unique schools and four outreach programs, educating diverse populations of children and young adults; every school caters to a different segment of society. Over the last four decades, SHEF have trained over 118,000 teachers and impacted over 6.1 million children (predominantly girls from disadvantaged communities) through SHEF’s various schools and programs. Study Hall Educational Foundation has been pursuing its mission to provide quality education to underprivileged girls and youth in urban and rural India. Using feminist-based pedagogy, gender sensitization techniques and adolescent empowerment discussions on social issues in the classrooms. SHEF has developed over 2000 content videos covering the state curriculum, special education, digital stories and teacher-training workshops. SHEF keeps the Girl Child and her development at the center of all initiatives, empowers girls through theatre and drama based education to become equal autonomous persons having the right to equal participation in society. Together, SHEF’s units work across the continuum of privileged and marginalized children, demonstrating that its social justice-focused educational model, based on an ethic of care, responds to the full range of challenges children face in building agency and personhood. SHEF’s schools also act as hubs of innovation where new curricula and pedagogies are developed. Once tried and tested, the outreach arm shares and scales these innovations.