In 2011 we decided to launch REACH II in the Kashmir Valley. The Kashmir initiative had its own challenges. The threat of militancy (bombs went off in Lal Bazaar in Srinagar on one of our trips), distance (braving treacherous roads, our team reached the Indo-Pak border with application forms), and orthodoxy (the school chosen for this scholarship initiative is co-educational), six children - four girls and two boys, were selected.

They completed their class 10 at the Sahyadri School (a sister school of Rishi Valley), near Pune. As of 2017, they started class 11 at some of the top schools across India including The Valley School, Bangalore; Mahindra United World Colleges (UWC), Pune and Sarla Birla Academy, Bangalore.

2012