Undergraduate students
Empowerment Club
The heart of the movement today. College years formed into capable, grounded leadership — and the club that runs the Nurture Centre in its neighbourhood.
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Community Development
A club on a campus. A free evening centre in the neighbourhood beside it. Repeat that across India and you have something no policy can buy.
The clubs
A home for every stage of a life.
Growth should not stop because you graduated, or started work, or turned thirty. There is a club for each part of a life, and the movement does not lose you when you move between them.
Postgraduates & graduates, until thirty
Community Club
The years between campus and career, which are usually the loneliest and the most formative. Growth that does not pause at graduation.
All employed individuals over thirty
Professionals Club
The weekly discipline of learning and service, carried into working life.
Leaders & entrepreneurs
Leadership Club
Those who keep growing, and who turn standing into mentorship and institution-building for everyone coming up behind them.
Teachers
RITE Club
Rebuild India Teaching Excellence — the formation of those who shape everyone else. The highest-leverage club in the movement.
Every club, without exception
The standard
Twenty-five people constitute a club; fifty is the target. Minimum age eighteen. One meeting a week, all year round. No membership fee, ever, by rule.
The one that matters most right now
The ARISE Empowerment Club belongs on every campus.
Every college with an undergraduate programme should have one. It is the club that forms its own students and runs a free evening centre for the children of its own neighbourhood.
A college is asked for six things, and for nothing else. No fee. No funding. No facility beyond a meeting slot. No staffing beyond a faculty advisor. No undertaking as to numbers.
- Official recognition — recognise the ARISE Empowerment Club as a club of the college.
- A Faculty Advisor — one or two members of your faculty as the college’s officer to the club.
- A slot to present to all students — and permission for students to encourage their fellow students to join. It is not a screening event: nobody is chosen, everybody is invited.
- Premises for the weekly meeting — on the college premises, with permission to invite guests to speak.
- Access for Rebuild India mentors — to take part in club meetings and guide the associates.
- Permission to run Nurture Centres — in locations suitable for it, including on the college’s own campus where that is feasible.
The college pays nothing and receives nothing in money. A club is constituted as soon as twenty-five students are ready — there is no chartering season and no deadline.
For colleges
Host an ARISE Empowerment Club.
Tell us about your college and we will arrange a conversation.
The heart of the movement
What a Nurture Centre is.
A free evening learning centre, run by an ARISE club, for children of classes six to ten. Every club runs at least one.
It is not a tuition centre. English, mathematics and science are taught — but experientially, on a curriculum built for the purpose. The point is to make those subjects felt, not repeated.
The rest of each evening is what school rarely has time for at all: one dimension of the person, and one competency of a builder. The Constitution through the children’s own assembly. Finance through savings jars. Leadership through duty roles. Enterprise on their own street.
Five evenings a week, all year. No fee, no deposit, no materials charge, no condition — ever. A child simply comes.
6–10Classes served
5Evenings a week
₹0Cost to a family
1+Centre per club
What this becomes
Now multiply it by every campus in India.
Fifty associates, formed in one club, carry free evening education to about a hundred children of their own community — roughly twenty children to an associate. Every club. Everywhere the movement goes.
India has more than forty thousand colleges. A club in each is four million young people in formation and four million children taught free in the evenings, by the people who live on their own street — at a cost to the exchequer of nothing.
A nation in which the people who are rising are, at the same time and by the same act, lifting the people behind them.
Associates are the drivers of the mission. The children and families of the centres are its collaborators. Nobody in this arrangement is a beneficiary being done good to.
A club costs a college nothing. It costs the movement something.
Setting up a club and the centre it runs — training, materials, safeguarding, mentors — is what your gift pays for.