Education India is a work aimed specifically at Christian schools, to provide quality training for Indian teachers and appropriate resources for those schools that invite the team to help.   There are many Christian educational institutions in India.  However, sometimes they are overcrowded and poorly resourced.  Some are in areas where persecution against Christians is rife; others are in the middle of large sprawling slums. Their staff have good intentions and genuinely care for the children, but often they work within the old Indian education system, where rote-learning and lecturing are the norm.  Classrooms can be drab places and the teaching may well provide little opportunity for creativity, discussion or evaluation.

We go to India twice a year for one month at a time, with the aim of spending five days in each school we visit. The team eagerly look forward to these trips - they are always exhilarating, exhausting, inspiring and a massive privilege.  If the school is large, the whole team works together.  With small schools, we divide in two smaller teams.  Per trip we might have the privilege of going into five or six schools.  

We work in Christian schools.  This means that beyond offering training and resources, we ask for and are given opportunities to speak about our faith to the staff and the pupils, many of whom are from other faith backgrounds.  We do this by taking assemblies, leading staff devotions and running Bible studies.  Where appropriate, we will talk and pray with individuals.

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We keep in close touch with our schools when back in the UK / Australia through monthly requests for updates and by prayer.  The team meet regularly on Zoom to pray together and we invite school leaders to join us on occasion.  

n 2009, the Government of India passed the Right To Education Act, stating that learning must become interactive and child-centred; that classrooms should be busy, purposeful places; that praise and encouragement become the norm. This has been extended by the more recent National Education Policy of 2020.  These reforms are what we train Indian teachers to implement.