Students holding hand-lettered clean-air placards

Impact

Every figure.
Programme by programme.

Children, schools, rivers, trees and volunteers.

Two numbers,
one programme

3M+

Children and young people reached Modelled

Bridge the Gap · cumulative, since 2000

50,000+

Students through the curriculum

Bridge the Gap · over fifteen years

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.

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

Each one with the span it counts.

Children and young people reachedBridge the Gap · cumulative, since 2000

3M+

Modelled

Schools in DelhiBridge the Gap · every year

100–150

Students through the curriculumBridge the Gap · over fifteen years

50,000+

Schools in Delhi NCRBridge the Gap · over fifteen years

250+

The other 25 projects figures

Schools on year-long curriculaBridge the Gap · in 2019–20

200+

Butterfly parks across Delhi NCREco Action · cumulative

70+

Herb gardens across Delhi NCREco Action · cumulative

20+

Green cover in one Vasant Kunj parkEco Action · over a decade

5% → 90%

School groups a yearFarm School · annual, current

30

Dead leaves composted into soil on siteFarm School · cumulative

5,000 kg

Honey from the apiaryFarm School · cumulative

500 kg

Students taught directly, in classHealthy Cities · 2025–26 project period

2,000+

Partner schools across Delhi-NCRHealthy Cities · 2025–26 project period

26

Saplings and seeds plantedHealthy Cities · 2025–26 project period

3,000+

Influence Fellows, eight statesHealthy Cities · 2025–26 project period

10

Students in the schools that ran itHealthy Cities · 2025–26 project period

26,000–52,000

Modelled

People in the fellows’ communitiesHealthy Cities · 2025–26 project period

50,000+

Modelled

FellowshipsInfluence · each year

10

Volunteers, annuallyInfluence · since 2010

10,000

CollegesInfluence · since 2010

50

PlacementsInfluence · since 2010

200

Partner organisationsInfluence · since 2010

75

Youth groups in the CYON networkInfluence · since 2010

300+

Girls and boys through the programmeME to WE · over thirteen years

3,000+

Alumni who came back as peer leadersME to WE · over thirteen years

200+

Young people through job-exposure campsME to WE · since 2019

400+

Adolescent girls through the year-long journeyShe Leads Change · since 2017

50+

Girls in the wider Learning Communities cohortShe Leads Change

300

Girls recognised by the ELC Bright Promise AwardShe Leads Change · in 2018

57

What it looked like

Frames from our own archive.

Students standing along the bank facing the foam-covered Yamuna
A facilitator pointing out across the Yamuna to a small group of students standing on the bank
Young volunteers gathered at a planting site
Turmeric plants at knee height, two figures working the rows
A speaker addressing seated schoolchildren in a hall, the screen behind reading India’s water crisis with three figures on it
A group spread across a hillside writing and observing under open sky
Volunteers serving a shared meal to a seated gathering
A tight circle of students in school jackets, all hands together packing soil around a newly planted tree
A group of schoolchildren crowded together, smiling at the camera

Where to next

The organisation behind these figures, the work they come from, and how to join in.

Who Swechha is, who runs it, where it works and what it is registered as. Twenty-six years of it, stated plainly.

About Swechha