Yatra Foundation Australia Yatra Foundation Australia

Field of Interest

  • Education/training and employment
  • International aid and development

Target Population

  • People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
  • Young people (6-25)

Organisation Summary

Education is recognised as a powerful tool for reducing poverty, unemployment and inequality and for improving health, nutrition and promoting sustained growth (World Bank, 2004). ‘Yatra’ means ‘Journey’ in Hindi. We hope to be able to provide a pathway by democratising the opportunity for quality education for some of the most impoverished children in rural India.

Yatra Foundation Australia is a non-governmental, non-religious and not-for-profit organisation based in Australia, established to provide disadvantaged children in India the opportunity to access quality education.

Yatra Foundation integrates basic health initiatives into the educational settings, and is non-discriminatory with regards to gender, religion or caste in student selection. Currently, over 1100 students are being offered a quality education by Yatra Foundation, in northern and southern India, that they would otherwise have no access

Yatra Foundation seeks enduring change in the lives of children and their families. Our hope is that by providing disadvantaged children with a good education, where school attendance and progression is encouraged, a path to better opportunities is created. Our objective is that the education of one child now will have a long-lasting impact as education is shown to have positive knock-on effects for future generations.

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