Students in the villages

Some of the Foundation's most energetic volunteers arrive with backpacks. On 9 January 2015, students of IIT Roorkee came to Bareilly for a camp in the villages, and in 2015 students of IIT Delhi helped plant fruit trees in Jagdishpur village, Sonipat. On 28 December 2017 a group from IIT Delhi spent time with the Foundation's volunteers and the village children.

In early 2018, small teams of student volunteers travelled to a village near Bareilly at weekends. Their reports read like field diaries: teaching children about hygiene and trimming their nails, levelling the school playground with shramdaan, playing cricket with the older boys, lending books from the village library, starting coaching for classes 6 to 8, and helping run a medical camp with a woman doctor, where women who looked weak were given a protein supplement. Each report ended with honest notes on what had not worked and what to try next week.

On 22 March 2018 Gramya opened a Shiksha Sahayata Kendra, an education support centre with coaching in mathematics, science and English for children of classes 6, 7 and 8.