A Student-Led Initiative · Raipur, Chhattisgarh
In Raipur's government schools, "free" education still costs the poorest families hundreds of rupees each term for the notebooks, uniforms, and stationery their children need. Ready for Class collects supplies from families who have more than enough and puts them in the hands of children who do not.
Aaditya Agrawal is a Class 12 student at The Doon School and the founder of Ready for Class. He grew up in Raipur, in a family that has been in steel and land in Chhattisgarh for decades. For years he watched his own school throw away half-used notebooks and unused pens at the end of each term, while government school students less than three kilometres from his home rewrote in the margins of the same one notebook until there was no margin left.
Ready for Class is his small attempt to close one specific part of that gap. Not a movement. A system. Collection points in six Raipur apartment buildings, a Google Form for donors, one pickup day a month, and a partnership with a local government school and an NGO working with factory worker families.
"Free'' education in India is a rounding error away from private education for the families who most need free to actually be free. This project does not fix that. But it does put a notebook in a specific child's hand this term."
The people, the packing, the day of distribution.
Mission & Vision
Mission
To connect Raipur families who have surplus school supplies with government school children who need them. Every notebook, geometry box, pencil, and uniform piece we collect goes directly to a child in a partner school or a factory worker family, through a network of donation points across six apartment buildings.
Vision
To make it normal for middle-class Indian families to think about the school supplies they discard as belonging to a system that can carry them somewhere useful. A quiet culture change. A generation of donors who treat giving as ordinary infrastructure, not as a special occasion.
How It Works
01
Donation boxes in six Raipur apartment buildings accept notebooks, textbooks, pencils, crayons, geometry boxes, and uniform pieces in good condition. Families who cannot drop off can fill the Google Form and we arrange pickup on the first Sunday of each month.
02
On pickup day, the team sorts every item by category and grade level. Only supplies in genuinely usable condition move forward. Nothing is redistributed as a gesture. If it would not be enough for our own child, it is not enough for another.
03
Kits are handed to our partner government school and to the NGO working with factory worker families in Raipur. Distribution happens quietly, without photographs of the children who receive supplies. Dignity is not optional.
By the Numbers
Figures will update as the project develops.
6
2
1
Fill our short form. We handle pickup, sorting, and distribution. You handle nothing except opening the door.
Donate Supplies