We provide learning solutions that enable individuals to be independent, make informed choices, and take their lives and community forward.
Masauli is a small village in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh — the village where Udbodh co-founder Anadi spent his childhood summers. His childhood friend Rohit stayed behind, and while Anadi went on to a good education and a career, Rohit's schooling collapsed under the weight of a poor local education system.
That gap between two friends' lives became the reason Udbodh exists. Anadi returned with fellow founders Keshav and Krishna to launch Udbodh — built to empower people through education so that everyone, regardless of where they are born, gets the chance to make informed, life-changing choices.
"Where an individual realises their true potential." — Our vision. "We provide learning solutions to enable an individual to be independent and fully participate in daily life." — Our mission.
A door-to-door survey across every hamlet of Masauli — Chamrauti, Bhabnauti, Lohran, Kohran and Dhobhiyan — surfaced the issues that shape everything we do. Sanitation, health access, electricity and heavy migration to Delhi and Mumbai all compound one root problem: an elementary education system that isn't working for its children.
We at Udbodh aim to provide learning solutions to enable individuals to be independent and make correct choices to take their lives and community forward.
Udbodh runs a residential fellowship where committed young women from the community are trained and mentored to reform elementary education from within — for as long as it takes.
Fellows are selected from educated girls in the community and receive round-the-clock mentoring to sharpen their pedagogy and content delivery — aiming for measurably better learning outcomes for 70+ children and deeper trust with villagers.
The program builds fellows' self-understanding and skills — communication, mobilisation, planning, advocacy and management — turning them into change-makers for life, working on every issue a village faces.
A fellow sits with a child until a concept actually lands — sometimes that's an entire lesson spent on one student, one word at a time. It's slow work, and it's the only kind that changes a Grade 5 reading score.
Every fellow is chosen against the same bar — because the work asks a lot of the people who do it.
Udbodh partners with local panchayats and authorities to run awareness camps — helping villagers access PAN cards, government schemes, and basic services that are otherwise a long, confusing trip away.
The strongest evidence of what Udbodh does isn't a statistic — it's the ease between children who grew up in a village with almost nothing built for them, and who are now growing up with a classroom, a fellow, and each other.
Opened this January in village Fatanpur, Pratapgarh — in loving memory of Late Gajanand Teluram Agarwal — this early-learning centre brings a play-based, Montessori-inspired classroom to young children. It's donated by PCPL Foundation and implemented jointly by Udbodh, Sampoorna Shiksha and the Pagaria Welfare Foundation.
Every session blends structured lessons with free play — literacy and numbers in the morning, creative arts and outdoor games later on — following a Montessori philosophy that lets each child move at their own pace instead of a fixed, one-size-fits-all timetable.
The grand-opening ceremony brought together the centre's donors, partner organisations, and dozens of curious families from Fatanpur, many seeing a proper classroom — smartboard included — for the first time.
Three children, three screens, one teacher moving quietly between them — the centre's small computer lab is often the first time a child in Masauli touches a keyboard. It's a small room doing outsized work.
Lessons start with the basics — how to hold a mouse, find keys without looking, open a program — using TypingMaster to build muscle memory before moving on to simple word processing. The lab rotates through small groups so every child gets hands-on time at the keyboard, not just a turn to watch.
From the grand-opening ceremony to everyday computer class — a look at the centre in session.
Storytelling, phonics, pre-writing patterns and sight-word reading to build early English fluency.
Pre-math concepts, number sense 1–20, shapes, colours, sorting and matching.
Family & hygiene, seasons, animals, community helpers and modes of transport.
Finger & vegetable printing, origami, clay play, music and movement.
Gross motor play — jumping, balancing, catching — and fine motor skills like lacing and beading.
Turn-taking, sharing, good manners, and everyday independence.
Udbodh aims to work for as long as it takes to empower the people of Masauli with skills, resources and knowledge to make informed and correct choices that take humanity forward.
From the 2017 fellowship launch to today — photos from our own archive and the Udbodh Facebook page. See the Gajanand Learning Centre's own gallery above.
Whether you have two years, two hours, or a few rupees to give — every contribution moves Masauli forward.
Have a question, an idea, or want to visit Masauli? We'd love to hear from you.
