Bhil Academy, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India

In 2006, one of RMF’s partner NGOs in India ‘BHILS’ opened Bhil Academy, a residential school for poor tribal children in rural Madhya Pradesh. The medium of teaching is English, which is the language essential for being able to work in any services industries or continue university studies in nursing, medicine, engineering and agriculture. After studying at Bhil Academy, students from the most rural parts of MP are fluent in English, Hindi, and their native Bhili and are prepared with the skills and the confidence to break the cycle of poverty that has trapped their parents for so long.