SARD believes that every child has the right to a quality education in a safe and encouraging environment. Unfortunately, due to socio-economic and cultural factors, many of the children residing in SARD’s project areas, especially young girls, do not receive such opportunities. To combat this alarming reality, SARD runs over eighty “Quality Education Centers” which serve as bridge schools and remedial centers to bring children to an appropriate educational standard before they are enrolled in government or private schools. SARD’s educational approach is holistic in nature, as it is based around bringing about a better awareness of the learners’ environment, building their confidence and encouraging collective participation.

SARD’s educational approach is not meant to compete with the work of the government school system or to create a parallel system but instead to enhance and complement it. To this end, SARD’s educational programming is centered around a three-staged methodology in which new approaches are tested on a pilot basis, scaled up to other project locations, and then mainstreamed into the government and private education system. SARD has collaborated in this way with the Government of India’s District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).