Bright Sparks is a small primary school in Mohali, north India. It gives a free education to 100+ children from a shanty town who would otherwise miss out completely on school. Many move on to access mainstream education, and all get to experience a safe environment in which to have a childhood, learn and thrive.

The shanty town where the children live is on the banks of a polluted river. Most are working children whose parents are migrant workers: labourers, fruit seller or cleaners. Bright Sparks helps to break this cycle of poverty and illiteracy.

The school is in a quiet residential area, a mile away. It is in rented rooms on the ground floor of an apartment block. Its a small space, so every room gets reorganised for a different use several times in a day. There are five primary classes with five teachers.

It costs 16.5k per annum to run the school including salaries for 7 teachers and rental of the premises. Our 14 Brighton Half Marathon runners aim to raise at least enough funding to cover the school's running costs for 4 months. Learn more about the school here: https://brightsparks.org