What is the name of your organization?
ELICIT Foundation
What is the name of your solution?
Teach To ELICIT
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Building resilient education ecosystems in conflict regions—where teachers lead the shift from survival to thriving
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
India
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
Globally, 473 million children—one in six—live in conflict-affected areas (UNICEF, 2024). In the Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir region alone, over 2 million students are growing up amid decades of unrest, navigating disrupted education, chronic uncertainty, and intergenerational trauma (2011 Census, UDISE+ 2021-22).
Prolonged conflict alters cognitive and emotional development, with post-traumatic stress becoming widespread. Parents, caught in daily survival struggles, often lack the capacity to guide children toward constructive futures. Meanwhile, school systems remain critically underprepared—leadership lacks both the expertise and tools to address the psychosocial toll of conflict on teachers, children and systems.
As a result, students experience diminished agency, emotional withdrawal, and a weakened sense of purpose. Learning environments often reinforce fear and mistrust instead of fostering resilience and exploration. Without systemic interventions, conflict-affected classrooms leave children at the risk of harm with continued cycles of trauma.
What is your solution?
Teach to ELICIT trains teachers on critical consciousness and tools of contextually responsive teaching. It places them in conflict-impacted regions in mainstream classrooms through a two-year fellowship model that trains teachers on trauma-informed practices and tools to create emotionally secure classrooms. By embedding these practices into daily learning, the program helps students process volatility and rebuild agency within their school routines and not as a plug in.
Fellows are trained to find opportunities to integrate student well-being with academic content. They design lesson plans that incorporate feedback loops to track safety, resilience, and engagement. Schools become partners in this transformation through structured dialogues with leadership, ensuring systemic change.
At the core of our model is an edu-tech approach that leverages data insights to refine teaching methods and measure predetermined well-being oriented outcomes. Over time, this scalable framework strengthens school culture, enabling classrooms to serve as spaces for restorative safety and constructive growth.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Teach to ELICIT serves teachers, students, and school systems in conflict-affected regions.
By training teachers in trauma-informed, data-driven methodologies, we enable them to create emotionally secure and engaging learning environments. Educators develop the skills to integrate student well-being into their teaching, improving classroom dynamics and long-term student outcomes.
For students, this shift translates into safer, more inclusive classrooms where they can process trauma, regain a sense of agency, and build resilience. They engage more meaningfully with learning, reducing emotional withdrawal and disengagement.
At the school level, the program strengthens leadership’s capacity to sustain emotional well-being as a systemic priority. Through structured data collection and continuous dialogue, Teach to ELICIT helps schools evolve into environments that prioritize student safety, teacher support, and restorative learning practices.
