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A child’s first years shape everything that follows. By age six, the foundation for how they will learn is largely set.
Repair of Anganwadi
The government runs Anganwadi centres across India, providing preschool learning, nutrition, and basic health support for children under six. These centres are present in the neighbourhoods that need them most. In many places, the physical spaces no longer support effective learning, and the space itself becomes the obstacle. We begin there. We take the centres that already exist, in the neighbourhoods that depend on them, and transform them into safe and engaging learning spaces. We stay involved beyond renovation to support long-term impact.
An Anganwadi is a government-run child care and early learning centre, part of India’s Integrated Child Development Services. Each one serves the children under six in its immediate area: early education, supplementary nutrition, immunisation support, and health monitoring. It is, for most of the families
who use it, the most accessible form of early childhood support within the community.
The early years form the foundation for how a child will learn. Children in under-served neighbourhoods often begin learning in environments lacking the support needed for effective early learning. Anganwadi centres are designed to bridge this gap by providing the structural support, learning materials, and community framework that enable young children to develop confidence, curiosity, and the foundational skills they carry forward. A well-resourced, caring learning environment in these early years shapes
every year that follows.
Each centre is already run by an Anganwadi worker who knows the children and the families. We work in coordination with the people already responsible for the centre, not around them, so that the centre keeps functioning through the work and remains in their hands afterward. The aim is a centre that is better, strengthening systems in ways that remain sustainable for the community. Our involvement continues beyond reopening through ongoing engagement with the community.
We take centres whose buildings require structural and learning-environment improvements and rebuild them into spaces designed around the needs of young children. Depending on the condition of each centre, that means:
Physical renovation is only one part of the work. The part that matters as
much is what follows it: we stay involved with each centre after it reopens.
The physical environment is not decoration, it is pedagogy. A room with broken walls, poor ventilation, and inadequate space communicates to a child that learning is not valued. A room that is clean, bright, safe, and thoughtfully arranged, with child-sized furniture and learning materials on the walls, tells a different story. Children learn better in spaces that welcome them. The transformation of a damaged Anganwadi into a bright, organized learning space changes what becomes possible in that centre.
Four centres so far, across Hyderabad:
Each centre is shown as it was, and as it is now. The images document the transformation of centres renovated through Sreshth Foundation’s work. This is not one-time intervention. We remain involved with each centre after renovation, supporting the Anganwadi worker, engaging with families, and ensuring the space remains a place where learning can flourish.
