A Message from Dr. Pillai

Tripura Foundation seeks to deliver HoPE to people living in poverty, hunger, violence, disease, inequality, and exploitation.

To achieve Tripura’s vision, we focus on the area where we believe we can have the greatest impact: Phonemic Intelligence and transformative education. We work in collaboration with school communities on a global level to develop academic and social skills. We partner with local governments across India to deliver holistic community building programs. We partner with individual donors to bring Phonemic Intelligence programs to targeted special needs groups.

Tripura Foundation works with the highest values of full integrity, accountability, commitment to success, ethics, community building, efficiency, and inspiration.

One billion children – every second child around the world– live in poverty. This means that these children are undernourished, live without adequate shelter, no access to safe water or health services. One hundred twenty-one million children have no access to education.

Tripura Foundation believes that all children, regardless of gender or background, have a right to receive a healthy nourishment and transformational education. By empowering children through the Phonemic Intelligence and Hope Centers programs, we are starting to see a new world in which these children are able to realize their full potential.

Tripura Foundation had its origins in India in 2000, where we launched the preparation and delivery of hot meals to 1000 families in the slums of Chennai, India. We also partnered with the Rotary Club to set up a Boystown of 95 children highlighting the power of giving nutrition along with education to nurture body and mind together. In 2007, Tripura Foundation educators realized that their transformational educational teachings had remarkable results: better focus and concentration, higher academic results and a much higher social and emotional intelligence.

Tripura Foundation had its origins in India in 2000, where we launched the preparation and delivery of hot meals to 1000 families in the slums of Chennai, India. We also partnered with the Rotary Club to set up a Boystown of 95 children highlighting the power of giving nutrition along with education to nurture body and mind together. In 2007, Tripura Foundation educators realized that their transformational educational teachings had remarkable results: better focus and concentration, higher academic results and a much higher social and emotional intelligence.

Today, we are a global organization dedicated to promoting and enabling transformational education through school and HoPE programs focused on increasing academic and social intelligence, decreasing hunger, violence, disease, inequality and exploitation. We achieve this goal by establishing partnerships with local school communities, training teachers on Phonemic Intelligence and transformational education, supporting girls and boys to complete secondary school with the holistic life skills necessary to succeed in school and future life.

We currently work in India, USA, Mexico, Haiti, Trinidad with plans to expand so we can bring transformational educational opportunities, food and health resources to the poorest communities throughout the developing world.

Tripura’s programs have benefitted more than 20,000 children so far and we are on track to reach 100,000 children by 2016. Imagine a world in which every child has access to an education, shelter, water, food and health service. Tripura continues to make this dream a reality, one child at a time.

Baskaran Pillai
Founder and Chairman