Birasthali · Chanchal · Malda, West Bengal
Education is the surest way out.
We run Global Advance Academy — an English-medium school where a child’s place is decided by need, never by what the family can pay.
2024
Academy established
Nursery–IV
Classes running today
10
Facilities on campus
CBSE
Curriculum followed
Admissions open ✦ Nursery to Standard IV ✦ English medium ✦ CBSE curriculum ✦ A hot lunch every day ✦ Air-conditioned classrooms ✦ Qualified teachers ✦ Every child is welcome ✦
Every child deserves the same classroom, the same teacher and the same chance — whatever their caste, religion or family income.
The founding promise of the trust, 11 July 2024
Our school
Global Advance Academy
Founded in 2024 in Birasthali, the academy teaches Nursery to Standard IV in English, following the CBSE curriculum. Air-conditioned classrooms, a daily lunch, qualified teachers and a campus built for small children — in a village where none of that existed before.
It was started to lift the poor and the overlooked, and to educate the children who need it most, irrespective of caste or religion.
What guides us
Vision, mission and objects
Vision
A society where every child, regardless of background, has an equal opportunity to be educated and to pursue what they want to become. We aim to develop students fully — academically, socially, emotionally and physically — and to send educated, capable citizens back into their own community.
Mission
To put quality education within reach of children who are economically disadvantaged or otherwise shut out of it. We teach to a real standard, build character and life skills alongside academics, and work to break the cycle of poverty one classroom at a time.
Objects
Equal access regardless of income, gender, ethnicity or religion. Education that meets or exceeds standards. Support for children with disabilities and special needs. Honest measurement of outcomes, sound financial management, and partnerships that make the work last.
The campus
Built properly, from the first day
A charitable school does not have to feel like a compromise. Pick anything below and see it.
Air-conditioned classrooms
Malda summers reach the mid-forties. Cooled rooms are the difference between a lesson and an endurance test.
Sports ground
An open field behind the building, used for assembly every morning and for games through the term.
Clean drinking water
Filtered water on tap, so no child has to carry a bottle from home or go without.
Separate toilets for boys and girls
Separate, maintained facilities. It is one of the commonest reasons girls stop attending school, and it was designed in from the start.
Computer education
Computers from the earliest classes, because a child who first meets a keyboard at sixteen is already behind.
Fire safety equipment
Extinguishers on every floor, checked and in date.
CCTV surveillance
Cameras across the campus, monitored from the office — so parents know exactly who is on the grounds.
Science laboratory
A room where experiments actually happen, rather than being described from a textbook.
Smart classrooms
Screens and projectors, so a lesson can show a thing instead of only naming it.
Wi-Fi campus
Connectivity across the site, for teaching material and for keeping records properly.
Beyond the syllabus
What our students do
World Environment Day
The children wrote and drew their own placards, then carried the message out of the school gate and through Birasthali.
Plantation drive
Ground prepared, saplings planted, water carried — by the students themselves.
Books and kits
Books, bags and study material are handed out at the start of the session so that a family’s budget never decides whether a child has what the lesson needs.
An ordinary Tuesday
A day at the academy
Tap through it. This is what the money pays for, hour by hour.
Morning
Assembly on the ground
Everyone gathers outside before the first bell — the whole school in one place, which for many of these children is the first time they have belonged to something that size.
First half
Lessons, in English
Nursery to Standard IV on the CBSE curriculum, taught by qualified teachers in cooled rooms.
Midday
Lunch, every day
A meal served at school. Hunger is one of the quietest reasons a child stops learning, and it is one of the easiest to remove.
Afternoon
Out of the classroom
Plantation drives, campaigns, drawing, recitation, sport. The part of school children remember.
Home time
Back to the village
Children walk home to the same houses their parents were never educated in. That is the whole point of the work.
Who runs the trust
Our trustees
Five people from this district, accountable for every rupee that comes in.
Saberina Khatun
President
Shefali Khatun
Vice-President
Aktar Ali
Secretary
Estaque Ali
Treasurer
Chand Muhammad
Member
Notice board
Announcements
Admissions
Admissions to Global Advance Academy are open. Apply online in about five minutes — no printing, no trip to the office to hand in a form.
Foundation Day
The academy marks its Foundation Day every year with the children, their families and the wider village.
Visit the school
Parents and well-wishers are welcome on the campus. Call ahead and we will show you around.
A classroom is the cheapest thing you can give a child.
Every rupee goes into books, uniforms, meals and teachers at Global Advance Academy. Give once, give monthly, or give your time.