Introduction Vision To promote education as a vehicle for rural development Mission To make a lifelong difference in the lives of rural, underprivileged girls and boys, through holistic education. Goal To Educate, Engage and Empower rural girls and boys. RDF was set up in 1996 with the vision that ‘Education is a vehicle for rural development’ and a mission to Educate, Engage and Empower rural children, so that they can break the cycle of poverty that almost every rural family finds itself in. The change that RDF envisioned over two decades ago to help families become financially more self sufficient was through the means of providing a high quality of education to children of poor farmers and tribals residing in rural Telangana. Whatever be the extent of our success in bringing in the envisioned change, our vision and mission are still very relevant in view of the extent of success yet to be achieved and the ever-increasing responsibilities of the organisation--providing a healthy a