Mission
We aim to achieve this vision by providing opportunities to link children from disenfranchised communities with other communities in India through education.
Education will:
• Equip children with skills they can use to build capacity
• Build leaders who become ambassadors of their region in other parts of
  India
• Create a future with more opportunity.

REACH is an educational initiative that provides full scholarships for students from areas that are infrastructurally disadvantaged due to geography or history to the most appropriate schools of the highest standard. Emotional resilience, ability to adapt, special skill sets, sports, cultural abilities and academics are factors weighted equally in the selection process. The first REACH program was created for students from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a region that occupies a minimal space in the consciousness of mainland Indians. This has resulted in a community with remarkably reduced opportunities and resources. More importantly, it has created an incomplete sense of identity amongst the youth on the islands. Today five students from the islands are in the fourth year of REACH, studying in Rishi Valley, a school carefully chosen as much for its egalitarian atmosphere as for its non-competitive ethos without compromising on either academic or extra-curricular development. These children are pioneers in their communities by not only coming across from the islands, but also crossing social, cultural, and economic borders.

The next two years will see six more students being chosen from another disenfranchised part of India and placed in a socio-culturally harmonious school. A careful, evolved, painstaking selection process takes a year to complete as does finding a school that is the perfect fit. In the future, we envisage REACH continuing to create many similar bridges across the country.