Quest’s Anandshala program works towards making schools joyful learning spaces and ensures that every child stays, engages and learns in schools. It builds stronger relationships between students, teachers and parents. Anandshala enhances students’ language abilities and ownership towards schooling by creating spaces for free and creative expression.

Through advocacy and capacity building it attempts to create a responsive education system. Anandshala focuses on better implementation of select government policies around child engagement environment in school. Operating in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Anandshala program works to build stronger relationships between teachers, students and parents to make schools joyful learning spaces that motivate students to stay in school. It reaches out to out-of-school adolescents through local youth clubs, and attempts to create a responsive education system through advocacy and capacity-building.

• Enrichment program: Build student leadership & enhance student participation in school activities
• Early warning system: Data based system to support teachers identify at-risk students & prioritize attention on them
• Parent engagement: Engage parents in their child’s learning process and create space for mutual dialogue
• Develop change leaders: Creating a cadre of master trainers from headmasters, teachers and student leaders