SAANS is not a school.
Not a rescue mission.
Not a model we claim will work everywhere.
It is a living experiment —
an attempt to bring learning back to life,
work back to dignity,
and education back to community.
Education today offers one narrow path:
study first, live later.
For children and youth who must earn, care, and survive,
this path often collapses.
SAANS asks a different question:
What if learning, earning, and living
could happen together?
We draw from Nai Talim, Gandhian thought,
Tagore’s idea of freedom in learning,
and Vinoba Bhave’s emphasis on conscience and community.
But more than theory,
we learn from the lives of children and families themselves.
We are not trying to fix children.
We are not trying to prepare them for a broken system.
We are not trying to scale a model blindly.
We are trying to stay honest, grounded, and responsive.