The Avasara Academy selects outstanding girls on merit to engage in a specialised curriculum that combines academic excellence with leadership, entrepreneurship and India studies. The learning experience includes faculty advisors, mentors, independent study opportunities, small class sizes, a diverse group of talented students, and a curriculum of extraordinary depth. Avasara believes that a student's ability to pay fees should not affect her chances to experience this unique and holistic educational opportunity.

The CSR effort does not end with giving money: a detailed year-by-year employee engagement programme has also chalked out with the school to make the engagement planned and meaningful.

Avasara, an all-girls secondary school established in 2015, is apparently succeeding in its avowed aim to “empower exceptional girls of promise to lead lives of distinction and impact”.

As the mother of one student, Ritu, says: “What Avasara has given our children is beyond our imagination. I could have got my daughter educated but not like here, and she couldn’t have progressed the way she has.” The father of another student, Mohini: “We were deprived of education in our own childhood. I want our daughter to get a good education.”

The girls themselves have varying views: one great thing about this place is that it never lets any kind of financial problem endanger studies, says Sakshi. For her co-student Sharon, this was where she learned more about women’s empowerment and gender issues. “I started to change those things in my family as well,” she adds.