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Azim Premji Foundation
The Foundation’s vision is to contribute towards a more just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. Its work is focused on India.
Azim Premji set up the Foundation in 2001. Over the past years, he has irrevocably donated most of his wealth for philanthropic purposes and created a philanthropic endowment valued (as of Jan 2023) at approximately USD 29 billion (INR 2,40,000 crore) to fund the work of the Foundation. As part of this endowment, along with other assets, 66 percent of the economic ownership of Wipro Ltd is with the Foundation.
The Foundation works to improve the school education system in India, with a focus on the more disadvantaged areas of the country. The work ranges from teacher capacity development and leadership development to matters of policy and curriculum, including a significant contribution to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and National Curriculum Framework (NCF)— National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCF-FS) 2022 and National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023.
The Field Institutions are spread across 7 states with over 3,50,000 schools. In addition, the Foundation also works deeply with 7 states in the northeast of the country to help improve the equity and quality of the state school systems. Currently, there are 55 institutions in the field. The Foundation also runs 9 schools that strive to provide quality education with an emphasis on instilling constitutional values.
The Foundation’s own team of 1,500 people is spread across 250 locations.
The Field Institutions are in some of the most disadvantaged districts of the country, each staffed with 10–60 members. The Foundation also runs 270 ’Teacher Learning Centres’, in these districts.
This deep institutional presence is now being leveraged by the Foundation to start work on Health and Livelihoods, starting with a few regions and then expanding.
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