Impact
Every figure.
No total.
The figures are not added together, because the people they count are the same people.
Why there is
no total
The figures below count overlapping groups of people over periods that do not line up. Added together they would be a larger number and a false one.
One young person can be inside all four at once:
10,000
Volunteers, annually
Influence
since 2010
100,000+
People on them
CityScapes
in two decades
10,000+
Young people through the Yatra
Yamuna Yatra
since 2004
3,000+
Girls and boys through the programme
ME to WE
over thirteen years
The populations overlap, and nothing records by how much
A volunteer who walked an eco-walk is counted in the first two. A girl who came through ME to WE and then led a Yatra is in the last two. Nobody has ever recorded which person is in which programme.
The periods do not share a denominator
One of those four is annual, one is two decades, one is since 2004 and one is thirteen years. A sum over four different spans is not a quantity. It is four quantities printed next to each other with a plus sign between them.
An organisation that declines to average micrograms and milligrams does not get to add up children.
Two numbers,
one programme
Bridge the Gap publishes two figures that a reader will assume are rival versions of the same count. They are not. They are answers to two different questions, and the difference between them is the point.
Counted or measuredModelled
3M+
Children and young people reached
Bridge the Gap · cumulative, since 2000
50,000+
Students through the curriculum
Bridge the Gap · over fifteen years
One counts reach. The other counts effect.
The larger figure counts children in a school the programme entered. The smaller counts children who sat the sessions. Reach is what an organisation can claim; effect is what it can be held to. Both belong on the page, labelled, because publishing only the first is advertising and publishing only the second hides the scale of the work.
One is counted. The other is derived.
The smaller figure is a count of real schools and real students. The larger is arithmetic — schools a year, times years, times the children in a school — and the middle term of that is an estimate.
The register
All of them, by kind, with the span each one counts.
Counted or measuredModelled
Children and young people reachedBridge the Gap · cumulative, since 2000
3M+
Modelled
Schools in DelhiBridge the Gap · every year
100–150
Counted
Students through the curriculumBridge the Gap · over fifteen years
50,000+
Counted
Schools in Delhi NCRBridge the Gap · over fifteen years
250+
Counted
Schools on year-long curriculaBridge the Gap · in 2019–20
200+
Counted
Butterfly parks across Delhi NCREco Action · cumulative
70+
Counted
Herb gardens across Delhi NCREco Action · cumulative
20+
Counted
Green cover in one Vasant Kunj parkEco Action · over a decade
5% → 90%
Counted
School groups a yearFarm School · annual, current
30
Counted
Dead leaves composted into soil on siteFarm School · cumulative
5,000 kg
Counted
Honey from the apiaryFarm School · cumulative
500 kg
Counted
FellowshipsInfluence · each year
10
Counted
Volunteers, annuallyInfluence · since 2010
10,000
Counted
CollegesInfluence · since 2010
50
Counted
PlacementsInfluence · since 2010
200
Counted
Partner organisationsInfluence · since 2010
75
Counted
Youth groups in the CYON networkInfluence · since 2010
300+
Counted
Girls and boys through the programmeME to WE · over thirteen years
3,000+
Counted
Alumni who came back as peer leadersME to WE · over thirteen years
200+
Counted
Young people through job-exposure campsME to WE · since 2019
400+
Counted
Adolescent girls through the year-long journeyShe Leads Change · since 2017
50+
Counted
Girls in the wider Learning Communities cohortShe Leads Change
300
Counted
Girls recognised by the ELC Bright Promise AwardShe Leads Change · in 2018
57
Counted
Trees planted in Delhi NCRMonsoon Wooding · each year
~5,000
Counted
Trees planted and survivedMonsoon Wooding · cumulative
50,000+
Counted
Walks runCityScapes · in two decades
1,000+
Counted
People on themCityScapes · in two decades
100,000+
Counted
Journeys organisedGram Anubhav · cumulative
60+
Counted
Grassroots partners in the villages themselvesGram Anubhav · cumulative
100+
Counted
Journeys organisedNatureScapes · cumulative
60+
Counted
Yatras runYamuna Yatra · since 2004
30+
Counted
Young people through the YatraYamuna Yatra · since 2004
10,000+
Counted
Editions, one every JuneYamunotsav · 2006–2014
9
Counted
What it looked like
Frames from our own archive.
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