Mission and vision
Educational materials, into the hands of students who need them.
Vidora Foundation is organised into chapters. A chapter raises what a school's kits cost and runs the distribution, wherever that school is. Learning Kits is running now. Teaching and Access are what comes next.
The gap, plainly.
A student is usually not missing everything. They are missing one specific thing their year of the syllabus assumes they have. That gap is narrow enough to name and cheap enough to buy, which is why a student run organisation can close it.
What that thing is depends on where the school is. In Andhra Pradesh, where the first campaign ran, the state scheme already supplies uniforms, shoes, a school bag, textbooks and generic notebooks. What it leaves out is a compass box, an atlas, a slate, and a notebook matched to a student's grade. Those became the kit.
Why it started in Andhra Pradesh, plainly.
The first campaign ran in Palnadu and Prakasam because the founder's family has ties there and the door opened easiest. That is the reason it started there. It is not a claim that the region needs help more than anywhere else.
Narasaraopeta is an entry point, not a ceiling. The kit model is portable, which is why the organisation is built around chapters rather than around one place. A chapter may serve a school in its own community or partner with one abroad.
What the organisation values
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Dignity
Students are the subject of their own sentences, in the copy and in the photographs.
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Proximity
Work where there is a real connection, and say what that connection is.
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Deference
Local partners and teachers make the local decisions about what a grade needs.
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Stewardship
Receipts get shared. Every published number says what it counts and what it leaves out.
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Honesty
A planned programme is labelled Planned. An unanswered question stays visibly open.
The team, or a distribution
Not published until consent is confirmed
Who runs it
Vidora Foundation is run by high school students, organised into chapters that raise for the schools they serve.
The first chapter is in Frisco, Texas. The first campaign ran in Palnadu and Prakasam districts, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Meet the team