Poveda Kids- Educate your child and others’

The Poveda Foundation starts a Play School and Nursery this June in Mohan Nagar. The facility will provide outstanding preschool education to children through both indoor and outdoor activities.


3 batches will be run through the day with 15 kids in each group. The activities will span art, craft, song, dance, games, language, math, motor development and social skills.

The income generated through this project will sustain the learning centres for children from low income communities that Poveda Foundation runs and hence through the fees the parents pay, they will educate not just their own child but others’ too.

Poveda Kids is situated behind the United Bank of India, opposite Hotel Panchsheel on the Telco Road, Chinchwad.

Teacher Training Project

The Poveda Foundation has begun a project to train the teachers of 2 English medium public schools. The project will focus on English and Math teachers but will cover all teachers in the two schools.


Training will be offered both in content and in pedagogy.

Each child has the right not only to education but to good education and the larger goal of this project is to impact the learning in public schools through teachers.

Year End Conferral

Ever heard of the story of the star fish?


How do we juxtapose to that? Every time our teachers haven’t given up on a child and every time we have tried something different to ensure that every single child learns, we’ve been making a difference to starfish.

The year-end Conferral celebrated on 25th April accredited the accomplishments through the inception of the Foundation and presented the plan for the year ahead.

The children of the Vetalnagar centre presented an adapted version of the play, ‘Stone Soup’ with their message, ‘Being rich is not what you have but what you give.’ The Morwadi kids performed to the Colonnial Cousin’s Krishna, speaking about the importance of peace and communal harmony.

While talking about the year gone by, the teachers and children spoke on the importance to believe, dream and be result oriented. After a power point presentation of the year accompanied by ‘A whole new world’ Reeves Rodrigues, Founder of the Poveda, spoke of the impact the program had made.

The children had scored an average of 33.84 and 52.35 in a baseline assessment of grade 6 Science and Math before the program’s intervention. In less than a year, their average in the grade 7 assessment escalated to 45.58 in Science and 61.91 in Math.

The year ahead will see the strengthening of the existing centres and perhaps the addition of one new centre. The Foundation will begin a yearlong Teacher Training Project with 2 English Medium PCMC schools. A play school and nursery will also be run as a means to financially sustain the learning centres.

Awards to children who showed the most academic improvement in English, Math and Science, who demonstrated outstanding conduct, responsibility and timeliness and who had a 95% and higher attendance through the year were conferred.