LAMP

Learning and Migration Program

The Learning and Migration Program (LAMP), addresses the complex issues faced by children at-risk of migration, providing them with the education, resources, care, and support they need to break the cycle of poverty. LAMP ensures that children from migrant families stay in school and acquire strong fundamental skills.

Over the last 20 years, LAMP has empowered 1.69 million children across 5,580 villages in 17 States and Union Territories across India.

Why LAMP

Why LAMP

OOne in every five migrants in India is a child. Every year over 140 million people across India are forced to migrate in search of work--called distress seasonal migration--often uprooting their families and traveling up to eight months of the year. Unable to lead a stable life with uninterrupted access to education, their children end up working in factories or other hazardous work sites to help their families, rarely staying in school and falling behind their peers, extending the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

Challenges in designing solutions include:

  • Complex and unpredictable mobility – making it hard to track the children
  • Intervention in silos - Lack of coordination between education, tribal welfare, and labor departments
  • Long absenteeism - Leading to learning deficit and high dropout rates
  • Narrow window of opportunity - children become laborers by the age of 12 years

How LAMP works

How LAMP works

The Learning and Migration Program (LAMP), focuses on the education of children affected by distress seasonal migration undertaken by their families.

Launched in 2006, the program reaches out to children across the most backward, tribal-dominant, and migration-prone regions of the country focusing on providing continued access to quality mainstream education while addressing issues of governance, accessibility, and systemic transformation.

LAMP's multi-sectoral approach includes:

  • Supporting Adolescent Girls by creating interwoven pathways for them to remain connected with education and subsequently complete schooling.
  • Promoting STEM Education in Learning Resource Centers to further equity in student access to educational resources.
  • Nurturing Tribal Children by creating mother-tongue-based learning material for those enrolled in pre-primary and primary levels.

The four key LAMP pillars

Access

Ensuring all children enroll and stay in school, especially those from migration-affected communities.

Quality

Providing a variety of learning tools and experiences to improve learning outcomes in the public school system.

Governance

Increasing community ownership of education through active engagement of multiple stakeholders.

Influencing

Engaging with government and other agencies to promote policy and programs for the education of communities in migration-affected areas.

 The LAMP Cumulative Impact 

  • 1.69 million

    Children at risk of distressed seasonal migration empowered with access to quality education
  • 5,580

    Villages steered to eliminate obstacles to access education

Our Contributors

Tata Chemical Society for Rural Development (TCSRD)

The Tata Chemical Society for Rural Development (TCSRD), in partnership with has been at the forefront of ensuring continuity of education for children from seasonal migrant families, in high-migration prone geographies of Gujarat state.
Over the years, this partnership has worked towards improving access and quality of education and strengthening the school governance and effective implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act in more than 400 schools across 9 districts of Gujarat - namely Morbi, Surendranagar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Kachchh, Mahisagar, the Dangs, Banaskantha, and Sabarkantha. Since 2012, the partnership has reached out to 60,155 children, 9504 School Management Committee members, 3480 PRI members, and 1,12,134 community members through various educational and school governance interventions.

Sterlite Foundation

Learning and Migration Program, Nandurbar Maharashtra, is supported by Sterlite Foundation since January 2020. The goal of the program is to adopt a life cycle approach, create a scalable and replicable model of continuity of education, in 100 schools across aspirational districts and advocate the model to other districts of the state. The objective of the program is to establish 10 digitized hub Learning Resource Centres in the community spaces to ensure that children at risk of migration have access to quality education, disproportionately disrupted by the pandemic. Since 2020, the program has benefited 11483 direct and indirect students, 59 education officials, teachers, HMs and Anganwadi workers, 595 PRIs, SMC, and community members.

Sarva Mangal Family Trust of MSI

Sarva Mangal Family Trust of MSI, has been supporting the Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) in the most backward, tribal-dominant, and migration-prone districts of Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, and Dang in Gujarat since 2015. The project aims to universalize access to quality learning, support pre-primary education, address learning deficits of children in elementary/secondary grades (with a focus on girls), improve school governance by strengthening School Management Committees (SMCs), and advance government teachers’ skills to deal with early literacy and numeracy of first-generation learners.
The partnership LAMP project has so far reached out to 25,500 children through various direct and indirect educational interventions. In addition, a total of 20,200 SMC members, PRI members, community members, and 120 teachers have been trained while 2128 adolescent girls have been provided life skill education.

WestBridge Capital

WestBridge Capital has been supporting the Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) in the most backward, tribal-dominant, and migration-prone areas of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Uttar Pradesh since 2019. This partnership aims at developing a replicable and scalable model to improve public schools, which includes universalizing access, supporting pre-primary education, and addressing the learning deficits of children in elementary/secondary grades. Over the last 3 years, the intervention has reached 1,27,432 children from 384 villages, spread across 30 blocks, 12 districts, and 4 states.

Tata AIG

TATA AIG is supporting LAMP to improve quality education through interventions in Ashram Schools, for the education of schedule tribe and schedule caste children, especially girls, in Nuapada district of Odisha from 2022. Working closely with the Department of Tribal Affairs, the intervention focuses on ensuring that children at risk of migration have access to quality education, which was disrupted by the pandemic, by making digitized Learning Resource Centres accessible in the community spaces.

Herbalife Nutrition

Herbalife Nutrition is supporting LAMP in reaching tribal children and adolescent girls in rural, migration-prone areas of Pandariya and Bodla Block of Kabirdham - an aspirational district of Chhattisgarh, by addressing the learning needs of different groups of students for their successful transitions to secondary school and subsequent school completion. The partnership also creates a favorable environment by supplementing nutrition and life skills awareness to empower these vulnerable groups and collaborates with the local and state government to ensure sustainable impact in chosen geographies.

Vedanta

Nand Ghars, a measure undertaken by Vedanta, together with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD), are the state-of-the-art Anganwadis, committed to the Prime Minister's national vision of eradicating child malnutrition, providing education, healthcare and empowering women with skill development. AIF in partnership with the Vedanta Foundation is supporting the Nand Ghar project in 6 blocks of Dharwad district and 2 Blocks of Haveri districts working with 55 Nand Ghars in Karnataka, and 150 Nand Ghars in Bokaro district of Jharkhand. The project focuses on making Nand Ghars child-friendly and efficient learning centers, focusing on Education, Health, Nutrition, and convergence. The project also aims to provide round-the-clock electricity through Solar panels, e-learning in a stimulating environment, clean drinking water, and primary healthcare services. The 2 year partnership is designed to positively impact 4750 children and provide skill training to 1100 women in Karnataka.

Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security (DWCDSS), Government of Jharkhand

The Tejaswini Project aims to improve the socio-economic status of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) between the age group 14-24 years in 17 selected districts of Jharkhand by creating an enabling environment within their community and thereby improving the completion of their market-driven skills training and secondary education. Implemented by the Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security (DWCDSS), Government of Jharkhand through Jharkhand Women Development Society (JWDS) with the support of the World Bank, the intervention involves Educational Service providers, Technical Service Providers, Community Service Providers, and other Service Providers and stakeholders to create an effective ecosystem. The project is being implemented in the East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan and Simdega districts. The first intervention of the project is at the community level, which largely focuses on mobilization and empowerment, the formation of community-based platforms for AGYW, imparting life skills education, localized business and livelihood skills training, and providing information on broader services and opportunities. The second is at the institution level which will focus on the delivery of skills training and education courses for AGYW through qualified service providers with competent and highly skilled key experts, hired under the project.

Pramod Patel – Dang & Bardoli

Shri. Pramod Patel has been supporting AIF's signature program on education - The Learning and Migration Program (LAMP), since 2017, which focuses on rural communities affected by distress seasonal migration. The partnership, focusing on the tribal population of Subir, Dang district, since 2017, later extended its support to Bardoli, Surat district, Gujarat in the year 2019.

The partnership focuses on 4 pillars – a) Access (ensuring social and physical access to education, by tracking and retaining children, from seasonal migrant families), b) Quality (bridging the educational divide and improving the quality of education in under-resourced schools in rural and remote areas), c) Governance (strengthening the capacity of school governance institutions through capacity building of School Management Committees, PRI's, Citizen Educator's, and Adolescent girls' groups) and d) System Influencing (by establishing close linkages with the administration at the cluster, block, district, and the state level).

The program also ensures continuity of learning for seasonal migrant children by creating Sakarshalas (learning centers in sugarcane fields), designed to retain children in the education net so they can be re-enrolment at grade-appropriate levels when they go back to their native villages.

The partnership LAMP project reached out to 9,000 children (all belonging to the schedule tribes), through various direct and indirect educational interventions. In addition, a total of 7000 SMC members, PRI members, community members, 1000 adolescent girls, and 300 citizen educators, have been reached through various school governance interventions in 40 government schools.

Avantor Performance Materials India Private Limited

In 2024, Avantor Performance Materials India Private Limited, in collaboration with AIFT, launched a transformative initiative in 54 government schools in Gurgaon, Haryana. The program aims to improve hygiene and sanitation standards, ensure access to safe drinking water, enhance safety measures, and raise awareness to promote the health and well-being of children. Reaching over 500 students and 200 teachers, the initiative aims at creating long term impact in schools and communities.

Telstra - Comprehensive Learning Improvement Program

The intervention aims to improve the learning outcomes of students enrolled in 10 Govt elementary schools in Bengaluru South Dist., Karnataka. Telstra India Pvt Ltd, has been supporting LAMP in Karnataka since 2020, by implementing two Learning Resource Centres in Marathahalli and Varthuru cluster of Bengaluru South4 block. This 5 year partnership has so far impacted 5800 children, 82, Govt Teachers and 2053 SMC members and Parents.

Gurukrupa: Comprehensive Learning Improvement Program (CLIP)

The Gurukrupa Foundation supports the LAMP program in the backward, migration-prone blocks of Karnataka. Since 2021, the project has been working with 10 schools across 2 clusters, in the Soraba Block of Shivamogga District in Karnataka through 2 Learning Resource Centres in the region. The intervention has so far impacted 1800 children, 45 Govt school teachers, 190 students from Grade 9 & 10, 198 adolescent Girls, and 475 SMC members.

News And Updates

hindustan-times
NOV 02, 2023

Prashikshaa – AIF’s Annual Education Knowledge Event Deliberates Access, Quality, and the Future of Education for Children Affected by Distress Migration

New Delhi, 17th October 2023: The American India Foundation, catalyzing social and economic change in India for the past 22 years, organized the annual education knowledge event – ‘Prashikshaa’ – Learning Beyond Boundaries’ at Silver Oak, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi this week. Prashikshaa demonstrated the power of collaboration in facilitating continued access to quality education for children affected by distressed migration while addressing issues of governance and systemic transformation.

DEC 05, 2019

State Level Consultation on Education and Care of Migrant Children in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, 28 November, 2019: American India Foundation today held a state-level consultation on the care and education of migrant children, attended by over 200 people from across 30 districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Government officials, SMC members, academicians, educationists, and NGOs. Organized in collaboration with Lokmitra, AIF’s partner organization, the event witnessed extensive knowledge sharing on issues of seasonal migration and its impact on migrant children. The consultation provided a platform to the participants to understand the context of rural migration, brainstorm on strategies for ensuring easy access of education and inclusion of migrant children in the education system, as well as present evidence-based best practices that are both scalable and replicable.

Media

Breaking the Cycle: How Kalyani Defied the Migration Trap in Nandurbar

Ensuring Education till the Last Mile

Navigating the Maze - Empowering Girls Through Education Amidst Distress Seasonal Migration

Dreams: Opening Doors to Learning Opportunities for Every Kid

Sunita's story - LAMP changing lives 2021

Learning And Migration Program (LAMP) 2020

LAMP's Mobile Library in a Bag

Deepak Goes to School - WestBridge

Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) 2019

Haldiben goes to school

Learning and Migration Program (LAMP)

I want to be a Collector: Mohini Sanyal

The Story of Kali

Dreams

AIF LAMP Beneficiary Shares Personal Journey with the New England Chapter

I Want to Be A Doctor: Bhuleswari Nag

I will be an Engineer: Satyaban

Breaking the Cycle: How Kalyani Defied the Migration Trap in Nandurbar
Ensuring Education till the Last Mile
Navigating the Maze - Empowering Girls Through Education Amidst Distress Seasonal Migration
Dreams: Opening Doors to Learning Opportunities for Every Kid
Sunita's story - LAMP changing lives 2021
Learning And Migration Program (LAMP) 2020
LAMP's Mobile Library in a Bag
Deepak Goes to School - WestBridge
Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) 2019
Haldiben goes to school
Learning and Migration Program (LAMP)
I want to be a Collector: Mohini Sanyal
The Story of Kali
Dreams
AIF LAMP Beneficiary Shares Personal Journey with the New England Chapter
I Want to Be A Doctor: Bhuleswari Nag
I will be an Engineer: Satyaban

Awards and Recognition

Awarded Silver in Education Category - CSR Times Awards 2026

Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) was recognized in the Education category at the CSR Times Awards 2026, presented at the 13th National CSR & ESG Summit. For over two decades, LAMP has worked to ensure that children affected by seasonal distress migration remain connected to education, reaching over 1.7 million children across 17 States and Union Territories and more than 5,500 villages through systems-led approaches that strengthen access to foundational learning.

Promoting Education – 7th ICC Social Impact Summit & Awards 2025

LAMP awarded first prize at the 7th ICC Social Impact Summit & Awards 2025 for its significant contribution to strengthening educational access, enhancing learning outcomes, and driving meaningful impact for underserved communities.

Social Leadership Award 2024 – The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry

LAMP’s Learning Continuum Program, supported by HDFC Bank Parivartan, was recognized at The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Social Leadership Awards 2024 for its transformative impact on education in Odisha and Jharkhand, advancing equitable learning opportunities and improving educational outcomes for underserved communities.

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