We don’t fit you in, we create space for you
Inclusion at Kikstart runs on four programmes, each reaching people where they actually are, at school, at home, in a community hall, or online, one relationship at a time.
Four programmes, one inclusion mission
#ShikshaSabkaHaq — The Inclusive Learning Initiative
Education is a right, not something a child has to earn or qualify for. That’s the idea this programme runs on. And it doesn’t only happen inside a building. It happens at home, in a courtyard, wherever a child is ready for it.
In schools, we work on making classrooms genuinely inclusive. That means screenings to catch what’s being missed, teacher training, sensitisation for the wider staff, and open conversations about mental health so that asking for help stops feeling like an admission of failure. A lot of that support ends up coming from the children themselves, once you give them the space for it.
Outside schools, we build home schooling programmes for families who need them, and take education to communities where children have been left out of it altogether.
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Project DIA — Disability Identification & Awareness
Over the last four years, Project DIA has reached more than 1,000 individuals and families across the country, through over ten camps run alongside organisations already rooted in their communities. Each camp brings screenings, early identification and caregiver guidance directly to the families who need them. Teletherapy keeps us connected afterwards, so a single visit becomes a relationship rather than a memory.
Alongside the direct work, we spend time on awareness. Reducing stigma, explaining disability rights in local languages, and helping community and health workers recognise what they’re seeing. We always work through the people a community already trusts. What matters to us is what’s still standing after we leave.
D-Clutter Young Minds
Students carry a lot that nobody sees. Marks, comparison, phones, money worries, family expectations, and very little room to say any of it out loud. D-Clutter Minds started as a way to open that room, and it has taken us further than we expected.
We’ve sat with school students across classrooms and assembly halls, talking about the things that don’t usually make it into a school day. We have spent time with school & college students on what mental clutter actually looks like over a semester and how to clear it. With engineering & medical students, where the pressure runs highest and the silence around it runs deepest, we’ve had direct conversations about suicide prevention. And we’ve run webinars alongside student-led groups like Peerspace in Mumbai, because some of this lands better coming from a peer than from a therapist.
Sessions cover stress, focus, sleep, low moods, screens and the pressure to keep up. Nothing is a lecture, and nobody is asked to share more than they want to. Students who need one to one support get sessions at reduced rates. Cost shouldn’t be the reason someone doesn’t ask for help.
We’re still going. If your school, college or student group wants to host a session, we’d like to hear from you.
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The Supportive Parenting Circle
A community for anyone raising a child who doesn’t fit the standard script.
It can be a lonely job. Not always because of the child, but because of everything around them. The relative who means well and says the wrong thing. The birthday party that gets harder every year. The school that keeps asking why you can’t manage it at home. Most parents we meet aren’t short of advice, they’re short of anyone who understands why the advice doesn’t work in their house.
A lot of that loneliness also comes from being handed instructions without any explanation. So we share the thinking behind what we suggest. That’s what lets a parent adapt on a Tuesday evening when the routine has fallen apart and there’s no therapist in the room.
Our monthly webinars cover regulation, sensory needs, communication, daily living, adolescence and how to advocate for your child at school. Alongside them, we keep a private community group, a quieter space than the open parenting forums, where parents ask the small things that don’t warrant an appointment. Parents also meet each other here, which is often the part that actually helps.
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