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The People Behind The Bell

Meet the founders.

Two teachers who decided a mango tree and nine children were enough to start.

Mrs Preeti Nagle

Mrs Preeti Nagle

President

We didn't set out to build an organisation. We set out to make sure nine children under a tree had somewhere to look up a word. Everything since has just been keeping that promise at a larger scale.

Ms Deepika

Ms Deepika

Vice President and Authorised Signatory

We never chased growth. We chased the moment a child's eyes lit up because they finally believed they could. Growth was just what happened when we kept chasing that moment.

Chapter I · How It Started

A bell rings when something begins.

In 2015, a handful of teachers noticed something simple: villages without a school bell rarely had a school at all. So they hung one from a mango tree, gathered nine children under it, and started reading aloud. The bell wasn't decoration. It was a promise — class is starting, and you're invited.

A decade on, that same bell — now cast in brass and carried between partner schools — still opens every morning we work.

— and we've been ringing it ever since.

Chapter II–IV · What We Do

Three promises, kept in order.

Every program we run answers to one of these — nothing gets built until we know which.

Chapter II · Educate

Give a child the right book at the right moment.

Access is the first barrier, so we remove it first: mobile libraries that reach villages with no bookshop within thirty kilometres, and classrooms stocked before the term starts, not after.

  • Mobile library routes across 31 villages
  • Teacher training in reading-first pedagogy
  • Need-based scholarships, renewed yearly

Chapter III · Empower

Confidence is a skill. We teach it too.

Test scores rise when a child believes their voice matters in the room. So alongside academics, every partner school runs mentorship circles, debate clubs, and a student council with a real budget to spend.

  • 1:8 mentor-to-student ratio
  • Peer-led clubs in 86 schools
  • Student councils with real budgets

Chapter IV · Elevate

Raise the ceiling, not just the floor.

Finishing school shouldn't be the whole story. We fund pathways into college and vocational training, and keep a growing alumni network that comes back to teach the next class in line.

  • College & vocational pathway grants
  • Alumni-taught masterclasses
  • First-generation graduate placements

A Closer Look

When you educate a girl, an entire household changes.

In many of the villages we work in, girls are still the first to be pulled from school when money runs short. So we built our girl-child programs to remove that choice entirely — scholarships that don't ask a family to pick between a daughter's schooling and this month's bills, and evening literacy circles for the mothers who never got the chance themselves.

4,200+
Girls currently enrolled
63%
Of scholarships held by girls
900+
Mothers in literacy circles
140
Women trained yearly

Girl Child Scholarships

Fees, transport, and uniforms covered end to end, renewed every year through Class 12 — so a family never has to choose.

Adult Literacy Circles

Evening classes for mothers, taught by the same teachers their children study with — reading, writing, and basic numeracy.

Vocational & Livelihood Training

Tailoring, digital literacy, and small-business bookkeeping — skills that turn into income a woman controls herself.

"I sat in a classroom for the first time at 34. Now my daughter checks my homework."

— A literacy circle graduate, Mandi District

See It In Action

A week in the life of a partner school.

Every Morning

Reading Circles

Twenty minutes under the courtyard tree before lessons begin — no tests, just stories read aloud.

Twice A Week

Mobile Library Route

A van stacked with 200 titles reaches villages with no bookshop for thirty kilometres in any direction.

Monthly

Art & Craft Workshops

Painting, clay work, and puppet-making — because confidence often starts with something a child made themselves.

Quarterly

Science Fairs

Baking-soda volcanoes and homemade compasses — hands-on experiments that make textbook physics click.

Twice A Year

Sports & Games Day

Relay races and team sports across partner schools — the one day nobody's shy about showing up.

Every Friday Evening

Community Storytelling

Parents and grandparents take the floor — folk tales, in the language kids speak at home.

Chapter V · In Numbers

What ten years of ringing sounds like.

12,400+
Children reached
86
Partner schools
31
Villages served
9
Years ringing

"My daughter used to hide during reading hour. Now she rings the bell herself, every morning, before I've even finished my tea."

— A parent, Kangra District

Epilogue

Help us ring louder.

Every chapter above was written by someone who decided to show up. Chapter six is open.

Volunteer

Teach a weekend workshop, mentor a student, or help run a mobile library route.

Donate

₹1,200 covers a full year of books for one child. Every rupee is tracked to a classroom.

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