BYJU’S ‘Education For All’ Initiative Impacts 3.4 Million Children In One Year Of Its Launch

Kolkata, Feb 10: Reinforcing its commitment to creating a far-reaching impact for students from underserved communities, BYJU’S flagship social impact initiative, Education for All (EFA), has marked the one-year milestone of its launch and aimed to educate ten million children by 2025, a media statement said on Thursday.

Within a year, the initiative has impacted 3.4 million children across 26 states and 340+ districts by making tech-driven education accessible, equitable, and possible for all. On the occasion of this momentous one-year anniversary, BYJU’S Education for All has revised its goals to empower 10 million children by 2025 through high-quality digital learning from 5 million which was decided at the launch of this initiative. Since its launch, BYJU’S Education For All, through its partner NGOs, has been enabling children from rural areas and urban slums of India to get an equal opportunity to learn with access to BYJU’S free streaming licenses.

It is focused on a vision to eliminate the digital divide across the country by empowering and enabling students with sufficient resources and fostering a comprehensive ecosystem of digital learning, the statement added.Through the EFA NGO partners and on-ground facilitators, students are now using the BYJU’S App as a primary mode of learning. This effort has witnessed phenomenal engagement and traction among children using the app. Additionally, girls form close to 50 per cent of the beneficiaries of BYJU’S Education for All programs.

According to an initial study by KPMG (SROI method), a whopping 75 per cent continued using the app for an average of 1 hour per day. The study also revealed that 57 per cent of respondents continued to learn from the app due to interesting content that keeps them engaged and not because of any external pressure from parents or teachers. 57 per cent attributed their performance improvement to BYJU’S along with other factors (e.g teachers, parents, tuitions). Out of these 57 per cent, 31 per cent attributed this improvement solely to BYJU’S. On the annual milestone of Education for All (EFA), Divya Gokulnath, Co founder, BYJU’S, said, “EFA was born out of our dream to cultivate an equal opportunity education ecosystem. While the program was in its nascent stage, the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world, it challenged the foundation of our education ecosystem by forcing millions of schools to shut down. Our technology-first education tools helped us bridge the gaps widened by the pandemic. Through our ever-growing network of strategic NGO partners, we continue to provide quality education to millions of children across the remotest parts of India like Uri, Hailakhandi, Tirap, Bastar, and more. With each passing day, the number of children continues to grow. It is heartwarming to know that we have been able to restore smiles on the faces of children. Every child we connect to education renews our commitment towards making quality education accessible and equitable. We believe that the young minds of the country possess immense talent, and with the right resources and support, we can together transform the future of India.”

Speaking about the partnership with BYJU’S, Matthew Joseph, Country Director, American India Foundation, said, “The last two years have exposed the wide chasm between the connected and the unconnected, revealing hordes that are far behind on the digital uptake. Millions of students from underserved communities do not have the access to high-quality education, or the right resources, curriculum, and guidance to continue and scale their learning. AIF’s partnership with BYJU’S aims to address such inequalities in digital readiness that further widen the digital divide and have significant development implications that cannot be ignored. This partnership has impacted thousands of students across different states in the last year and that is just the beginning. We hope that this association enables us to reach the length and breadth of this country and ensure that we do not leave those who are less digitally equipped even further behind in a post-pandemic world,”