Some 200 families live in the remote rehabilitated village of Baldipurwa (near Bahraich in India). Eighty per cent of the resettled in Baldipurwa had never been to a school, so the question of sending their children to one seemed a distant possibility. There was nothing close by, not even an ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) Centre. Then the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), with its dreams of seeing every child in school, took on the challenge. When AKF workers met the community at Baldipurwa and offered early childhood education for their children, the community offered one of the huts to run the balphulwari or an Early Childhood Centre (ECD).