Our mission
To place a book, a desk and a working library within reach of every child in a government school in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and to keep that child in school until Class 10.
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Book Distribution · 18 June 2023
Children in S.L. Puram and ST Colony received new books and notebooks from our volunteers.
Republic Day · 26 January 2025
Volunteers handed out books and stationery to children in S.L. Puram.
Republic Day · ST Colony, 26 January 2025
Children at ST Colony, S.L. Puram marked Republic Day with our volunteers.
National Voters’ Day · 25 January 2025
Volunteers visited the school at Pudi in Tada mandal with gifts for the children.
Food Distribution · 20 January 2025
Volunteers handed out food packets and drinking water at B.V. Palem.
Book Distribution · 17 October 2022
Children in S.L. Puram and ST Colony received new Telugu and writing workbooks.
Independence Day · 15 August 2020
Volunteers and families gathered at the school to hand out gifts to the children.
Pandemic relief · June 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers took cloth masks to homes in S.L. Puram and Chennai.
Book Distribution · June 2019
Children and volunteers gathered outside the primary school after the 2019 book distribution.
Summer relief · April 2019
Volunteers set up clay pots of drinking water for people passing through S.L. Puram.
About us
In Telugu, akshara means letter and spoorthi means inspiration. Akshara Spoorthi Foundation is a public charitable trust working with government schools in rural Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, so that every child has books, a working library and a reason to stay in school.
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అక్షర స్ఫూర్తి
Inspiration through literacy · since 2016
To place a book, a desk and a working library within reach of every child in a government school in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and to keep that child in school until Class 10.
A Telugu-speaking countryside where a child’s postcode no longer decides whether she learns to read — where every village school has a shelf worth walking to.
What we do
Libraries, learning materials, digital labs, scholarships and health camps — each one agreed with the headmaster and the School Management Committee.
Literacy
A shelf worth walking to, in every village school
Infrastructure
Three years, one school, measured end to end
Digital
A computer that works even when the power does not
Equity
Keeping her in school past Class 7
Scholarships
The ₹12,000 that decides whether she takes the seat
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Impact stories
Written in the schools themselves, and published only with the family’s consent.
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The library at MPPS Kothapally now holds 840 titles. When we first walked in, it held four — and one of those was a phone book.
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She stopped coming to school in Class 7. Nobody wrote it down anywhere. Here is what it actually took to get her back.
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At Ankapur the school library is open to the whole village on Sunday mornings. It was not our idea, and the attendance register is the best thing we have read all year.
Our partners
Companies, foundations and institutions that fund, supply and volunteer in the schools we support.
Let’s build a literate tomorrow
Run a Saturday reading hour, catalogue a school library or help at a book distribution. Give a few hours; a child keeps the habit for life.
Gifts are eligible for tax deduction under Section 80G · Registration AAATA1234FF20219
Schools we support
We work inside government schools, alongside headmasters and School Management Committees. Every school is listed with its enrolment and what it still needs.
Gallery
Book distributions, reading hours and school visits. Photographs of children are published only with written guardian consent.
