Founder Story: They Built A Pre-School, Kids Finish In India's Top 3 | Preschool Business In India

About this episode

How two friends in Gondia built a pre-school whose kids finish in India's top 3 in national reading competitions and Olympiads, against children from every metro city. A Startup India story built from savings, with no loan, no posters and no ads.

Gurpreet Kaur Hora and Neelam Agarwal are the co-founders of Fondle Academy, Gondia. Neelam ran a boutique first. The two taught tuition together, announced a school at a Lions Club carnival with 88 schools present and no plan ready, got 10 admissions that day, and painted the school themselves to save ₹1.5 lakh. Twelve years later: two branches, 30 teachers and 10 didis, all women, franchises, and teacher training for schools in Tirora, Tumsar, Amgaon and Balaghat. This is the Indian entrepreneur story of how they did it: one job only, set the child's mind to "I can do it", and two founders who trained themselves in everything first, phonics, graphology, Vedic maths, child counselling, and then trained the teachers.

In this episode of Chaos To Clarity they explain why reading is not studying and listening comes first, why phonics is decoding and not memorising, what a child's handwriting tells a graphologist, the mistake parents make when they force a child to sit and read, and what screen time takes from a small child, including a five month old baby with eight hours of screen a day. Then how they ran a school online from June 2020 with craft kits sent by Swiggy and Zomato, and why they will never take a franchise but give one.

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