The reason a child leaves school is almost never the classroom.

We set up under the facade of an MCD school in Dwarka. Bags went out class by class: the little ones first, holding them up before anyone told them to.

It is a free school. Families still spent about ₹8,331 a year per child to keep one in it (NSS 2017–18), roughly a fifth of that on books, stationery and uniforms. A kit is aimed squarely at that fifth.

Reaching kids at the primary level is deliberate. The exit comes later, at Class 9 or 10, but the small recurring costs that push a family toward it start early. Cover them now and the odds a decade out change.

A school kit removes a specific, documented cost. Then we go back the next year, because a bag only lasts about a year.