ARISE · Press & media
For journalists and visitors.
Everything a reporter needs to write about ARISE accurately: what it is in three lines, the facts that are actually settled, the strict rules that protect a child in a photograph, and how to come and see the work. Media is not a partner category here — this is press and visitor engagement, and nothing is asked of you in return.
ARISE in three lines.
What it is
ARISE is a movement of the Rebuild India Foundation. On a college campus, at least twenty-five people aged eighteen and above form an ARISE club — a self-governing fellowship that meets weekly to learn, to serve and to grow.
What it does
Every club runs at least one Nurture Centre: a free evening learning centre where its associates teach children of classes 6 to 10, five weekday evenings a week, in Science, Mathematics and English made experiential, alongside the five dimensions and four competencies.
What it costs anyone
Nobody pays. Not the associates, not the children, not the families, not the partners. The membership fee is nil by rule. The work is carried by donors and sponsors through the Foundation, in central custody, receipted and audited.
Vyaktinirmaan se Rashtranirmaan — the building of individuals is the building of the nation.The motto of the movement
The facts a reporter needs.
These are the settled facts of the movement, and they are safe to print. Where a figure is not settled, this page says so rather than estimating — and we would ask that no estimate be attributed to us.
The Foundation, and the Founder-Custodian
ARISE is a movement of the Rebuild India Foundation and is not a separately registered entity. The Foundation is the contracting party for everything and the sole liability-holder to every centre-hosting agreement.
The movement was founded by Dr Varun Murthy, a physician and educationist, who holds its instruments in trust as Founder-Custodian until the movement’s own elected leadership is in place. Until then the Foundation’s Board and its ARISE office carry the national functions; club leadership is elected by the associates of each club, and the first club boards take office on 1 July 2027.
Bengaluru, and one school that proves it
Registered office: Rebuild India Foundation, Noble International School, Marenahalli Bande Road, Marenahalli, Jala Hobli, Bangalore – 562149.
The model is not theoretical. Noble International School (NIS), the Foundation’s free school, has formed children on the same five-dimension model for years. ARISE distributes that work through clubs on campuses and centres in neighbourhoods.
| Figure | What it is |
|---|---|
| 25 / 50 | Twenty-five people constitute a club. Fifty is the target, and more is welcome. |
| 5 | Five clubs: Empowerment (undergraduates) · Community (postgraduates and graduates) · Professionals (all employed individuals) · Leadership (leaders and entrepreneurs) · RITE (teachers). |
| 18 | Minimum age of an associate, expressly. Under-eighteens take part only as children of a Nurture Centre. |
| 6–10 | The classes a Nurture Centre teaches. Free, five weekday evenings. |
| 10 · 25 · 60 · 25 | The session, in minutes: opening and closing together · one dimension · scholastic work · one competency. On Friday the competency slot becomes the Balasabha, the children’s own assembly. |
| 20 · 100 | Roughly twenty children to an associate; about a hundred children to a centre. |
| 1 per club | At least one Nurture Centre per club. A club may run more. |
| 12 · 5 | Twelve Levels, Aspirant to Beacon, one point being one validated hour · five Stars, Sankalpa, measuring supporters onboarded, donors enrolled and money mobilised. |
| 7 | Partner categories: Club Host · Centre Host · Earn · Privilege · Learn · Serve · Donors and Sponsors. |
| Nil | The membership fee, permanently, by rule. Celebrations alone are self-paid. |
| 12 January 2027 | The Rebuild India National Convention — the movement’s one national gathering, at which clubs, associates and centres are recognised. |
| 1 July 2027 | The first boards take office. The ARISE Year runs 1 July to 30 June. |
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The figures we will not give you
Counts of clubs, centres, associates and children. The movement is being founded now, rolling, and colleges are onboarded continuously. Rather than publish a number that is stale by the week, we will give you the current count on the day you ask, on the record, with the date attached.
Figures that are not yet decided. Where a value has not been settled — the venue of the Convention, for instance — the movement does not guess, and neither will this page. It is published as soon as it is decided, and we will tell you plainly which category a question falls into.
Anything about a named child. Ever. See the next section.
Tax treatment. This site makes no claim about tax deductibility; the Foundation’s registration particulars are being located and entered. The legal position
What may be photographed, and what may not.
We want the work seen. We will not trade a child’s safety for coverage, and these conditions are not negotiable for any publication, however large.
No child may be identified
No name, no school, no class section, no address, no photograph from which a child can be identified. Not with a parent’s permission on the day, not in a caption, not in a credit, not in a video still.
No child’s record is ever shared
A child’s Ankur assessment record is seen only by the associate teaching that class group, the Centre Mentor and the Centre. It is never shared with an employer, a partner, a school, a donor, a journalist, or anyone outside.
Photography needs the consent
Any photograph at a centre requires the parental photography consent to be on file for every child in frame — consent B of the four, separately given and separately refusable. A child without it attends and is not photographed.
How a shoot at a centre actually works
The Centre Mentor confirms, before anything is made, which children have the photography consent on file. A refusal is never held against a child or a family and is never mentioned to the child — so a photographer is directed, not the children.
Practically, that usually means: wide shots of the room and the activity · hands, materials, the board, the Balasabha in session · associates and Centre Mentors, who may be named with their own consent · and portraits only of consented children, framed so that no child is identifiable.
Every visitor at a centre is bound by the same conduct rules as anyone else there. No adult is ever alone with a child. Nobody has contact with a child before their screening file is complete, and no unsupervised or sole-adult contact takes place before a Police Clearance Certificate has issued — which is why a visit is escorted throughout and is not a free run of the premises.
Material made at a centre is used for the purpose, the period and the placements the consent describes, and for nothing else. The full data notice
If a journalist forms a concern about a child while at a centre — ours or anyone’s — the routes are Childline 1098, Police 112, the Child Welfare Committee, and the POCSO e-Box. They bypass ARISE entirely, you need no one’s permission, and no internal process here delays a report. The safeguarding regime in full
Arranging a visit.
We would rather you saw it than took our word for it. Two things can be visited, and each is arranged differently.
Noble International School
The Foundation’s free school, where the five-dimension model has run for years. This is the easier visit and usually the better story — there is a decade of practice to look at rather than an intention.
Arranged with the school through the form below. Please give us a week where you can.
A Nurture Centre in session
A centre runs on weekday evenings. A visit is escorted by the Centre Mentor, is agreed with the host institution, and is fixed against the photography consents on file for that class group.
Friday is the Balasabha — the children chair it themselves. It is the most revealing hour of the week, and the most easily spoiled by an unbriefed camera.
What we ask of a visitor: arrive at the time agreed and stay with your escort · do not photograph until the Centre Mentor confirms · do not interview a child · do not ask a child their name, school or address · and take nothing away that identifies a child. What we ask in return is nothing at all. There is no embargo, no copy approval and no condition on what you write.
The factsheet block.
Written to be lifted straight into a piece. If you need a figure dated for publication, ask and we will give it to you on the record, current to the day.
Name. ARISE, a movement of the Rebuild India Foundation.
Motto. Vyaktinirmaan se Rashtranirmaan — the building of individuals is the building of the nation.
What it is. A movement that forms capable, grounded people through self-governing clubs on college campuses, and carries that formation to children through free evening Nurture Centres run by those clubs.
Who runs it. The Rebuild India Foundation. Founder-Custodian: Dr Varun Murthy. ARISE is not a separately registered entity; the Foundation is the contracting party and sole liability-holder.
Registered office. Rebuild India Foundation, Noble International School, Marenahalli Bande Road, Marenahalli, Jala Hobli, Bangalore – 562149.
Who takes part. Any Indian aged eighteen and above, on completing the Associate Success Program. The Nurture Centre Management Course is required before serving at a centre. Children of classes 6 to 10 attend the centres.
The model. A club of at least twenty-five associates meets weekly and runs at least one free Nurture Centre, five weekday evenings, teaching Science, Mathematics and English experientially alongside five dimensions of the person and four competencies. Each month the centre runs one initiative mapped to a UN Sustainable Development Goal.
Money. Nobody pays. The membership fee is nil by rule. Clubs hold and spend nothing; all money is held in the Foundation’s central custody, receipted and audited. Celebrations are self-paid.
Safeguarding. Two named adults at every session; complete screening before any contact with a child; no unsupervised or sole-adult contact before a Police Clearance Certificate issues; a Centre Mentor appointed by the Foundation as each centre’s Youth Protection Officer; six named safeguarding and data roles, none of which may be vacant while a centre operates. External reporting routes — Childline 1098, Police 112, the Child Welfare Committee, the POCSO e-Box — are published to every parent and every child.
Where it stands. Being founded, in Bengaluru, on a rolling basis, with no deadline to work back from. The Rebuild India National Convention is on 12 January 2027; the first club boards take office on 1 July 2027.
Web. arise.net.in · rebuildindia.org.in · nisedu.in
Please date any figure you take from us. Counts of clubs, centres, associates and children are given on request, on the record, current to the day.
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