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Getting kids ready for school in India.
Dost is an ed-tech nonprofit building a platform to expand access to early childhood development in low-resource settings through parent education. Our mission is to unlock children’s full potential by focusing on early learning - the time when 90% of our brains develop. We believe that parents of any literacy level can play a critical role in developing their children’s school and life readiness. In India alone, there are 150 million under-resourced caregivers who can benefit from resources developed for them. That’s why our team at Dost Education - educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers - are passionate about using technology and user-centric product design to change the trajectory of families’ lives. Since 2017, we’ve grown from a small pilot with a few hundred mothers, to reaching over 100,000 families working with state governments. Join us as we continue to innovate, grow our reach, and deepen our impact. We are supported by some of the best funders in tech and social impact space like Y Combinator, Mulago, and many others. Dost Education values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Dost Education aims to transform homes into playful learning spaces to prepare children in India for school. It focuses on family-based, technology-enabled interventions that use talk, care, and play to support early learning at home and in communities.
Dost Education delivers family-first early learning guidance through audio phonecasts, phone calls, WhatsApp nudges, and in-person/community meetings. Their approach uses everyday household moments and locally observable stimuli (toys, objects, surroundings) as learning opportunities, with frontline workers trained in responsive caregiving to maintain ongoing dialogue with families.
Who it’s for: Families with young children in India seeking early learning support; caregivers and parents who benefit from at-home, guidance-based learning interventions; communities and frontline workers involved in caregiver education.
Public awareness and impact materials; mentions of volunteers/frontline workers; organization notes 2017 founding and 2025 copyright; US tax-exempt status indicating formal fundraising capability
Sneha is passionate about using entrepreneurship to solve educational inequality in the world. She started Dost while completing her MBA at UC Berkeley. She has experience designing programs for women’s empowerment, financial inclusion and education across the world. In previous roles, she advised clients like Goldman Sachs, the Gates Foundation, Teach For India, and UN Women. She’s a Mulago Rainer Arnhold Fellow and GLG Social Impact Fellow.
Sindhuja has expertise building digital learning experiences and is passionate about making quality education accessible to everyone. She has worked across user-centered design, product development and engineering at Samsung and Adobe to build engaging digital experiences that make learning fun. Sindhuja received her Masters from UC Berkeley, where she specialized in technology for international development and began building Dost.
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