Magic Bus India Foundation

About Us

Founded in 1999, Magic Bus India Foundation has emerged as one of India's top five NGOs in the field of education and skilling. With a nationwide presence, Magic Bus is equipping children’s and youth from underserved communities and societies with life and employability skills to thrive in a fast-paced world and be ready for the 21st century.

The India's National Education Policy 2020 emphasizes on children being equipped with higher order thinking skills and socio-emotional learning. According to World economic forum, critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years.

Our comprehensive approach, known as Childhood to Livelihood, guides individuals from a childhood fraught with challenges to a life enriched with meaningful livelihoods. We engage with the ecosystems of young people, including parents, peers, community members, and local institutions, to establish a robust support network for them. This is achieved through two key programmes: the Adolescent Programme and the Livelihood Programme.

• Adolescent Programme – The programme caters to children from 12 years to 18 years of age, equipping them with life skills to achieve school, life and work outcomes.
• Livelihood Programme – The programme caters to young people from 18 years to 25 years of age, enabling them with transferable life and employability skills and secure sustainable jobs and aspirational salaries.
• Entrepreneurship Development Programme - To empower women aged 25 years above in peri-urban and rural areas, we offer entrepreneurship development programme to skill underserved women as entrepreneurs. We impart leadership and business skills to enable financial independence.

Female Labour Force Participation (FLFPR)

To contribute to national economic growth by boosting women's participation in the labour force, we place special emphasis on female involvement in all our programmes. This effort has resulted in achieving a participation rate of 52% on girl child and 60% among women.

Our Vision

A world where young people break out of poverty to lead fulfilling, rewarding lives and contribute positively to their communities.

Our Mission

To equip vulnerable young people with life skills that enable them to thrive in the transition to adulthood.

Our Outreach

• Children: 4,000,000 children lives positively influenced through our holistic adolescent programme.
• Youths: 585,000 young people equipped and impacted with livelihood programme.

Our Impact

• School Regularity – Children’s on the Magic Bus programme showed a 30% improvement in school regularity from a baseline of 61% to an endline of 91%
• Gender Attitude – Children’s on the Magic Bus programme have 25% improvement in gender attitude
• Self-efficacy – Children’s on the Magic Bus programme have 36% improvement in perceived self-efficacy
• Resilience – Children’s on the Magic Bus programme have 40% improvement in resilience
• Magic Bus' Life Skills education programme revealed 90% of adolescent programme participants valued life skills like, problem-solving, communication and confidence
• Job placement – 455,000 young people placed in sustainable jobs
• 99% young people graduated from livelihood programme

Future Forward

Our objective is to broaden our reach and impact by positively influencing the lives of 8 million children’s and 5 lakh young people over the next five years.