About us
Inclusion Axis Foundation
A youth-led foundation working to make education in India work for disabled students — in practice, not just on paper.
Who we are
The Inclusion Axis Foundation works at the point where disability rights meet everyday education. Enable Education is our flagship programme.
India has strong law on disability rights. What it often lacks is the habit of inclusion: the teacher who knows how to adapt a lesson, the admissions office that plans for a wheelchair before one arrives, the employer who writes an accessible job description without being asked.
We build that habit. We run awareness sessions in schools and colleges, train educators, convene dialogues where disabled people set the agenda, publish research for policymakers, and make artworks that let people see inclusion rather than be lectured about it.
We are young, we are small, and we work in coalition — with disabled people’s organisations, universities, companies and government bodies who want the same thing.
Our founder
Aarushi Gambhir
Founder of the Inclusion Axis Foundation and TEDx speaker, working on disability rights and inclusive education in India.
Aarushi founded Enable Education after repeatedly seeing disabled students admitted to institutions that had never planned for their arrival. Rather than treating that as an individual problem to be solved case by case, she set out to change what institutions expect of themselves.
Her work has taken her from school classrooms to national policy consultations, including engagement with NITI Aayog, and to international platforms such as UNODC RiseUp4Peace and the Asia-Pacific Network for Accessibility. She was a Volship Fellow with Volunteer for India, and her work has been recognised by The Ability Network, an initiative of Tech Mahindra Foundation.
Inclusion is a mindset, more than infrastructure.
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Our team
Community Support
Nothing we publish, teach or design is made without disabled people in the room. Our sessions are co-facilitated, our research is reviewed by the communities it describes, and our artworks are drawn from real accounts rather than assumptions.
It is slower. It is also the only way the work is worth doing.