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mPokket Deepens Its ESG Commitment, Powering Rural Education Transformation Across 100 Schools in West Bengal The fintech lender's sponsorship of Help Us Help Them's rural education programme delivers measurable gains across Environmental, Social, and Governance outcomes, with impact rippling out to families and communities across 12 districts Bangalore, India, 30 July 2026 mPokket, one of India's leading digital lending platforms, today reaffirmed its commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles with the release of results from "Apni Mitti Se Judi Shiksha," a year-long rural education programme it sponsored in full partnership with Help Us Help Them (HUHT). The initiative sits at the core of mPokket's social impact strategy of using its scale as a fintech lender to invest not just in access to credit, but in the education, environmental, and community systems that determine who gets to use that access well. The programme ran through 2025 across 100 rural schools in 12 districts of West Bengal, integrating 18 traditional rural livelihood skills, including agriculture, pottery, textile work, and Kalaripayattu, into mainstream academic curricula, reaching over 9,000 students and 800 teachers. mPokket supported every stage of the programme: school selection and onboarding, infrastructure (including 356 computers, 7,000 flutes, and toilet blocks in 33 schools), teacher and school-head training, artisan salaries for 151 community artisans, and on-ground monitoring across all 100 schools. "At mPokket, we believe that access to credit and access to quality education solve the same underlying problem: giving people the confidence and the tools to build their own future. This programme was never about writing a cheque and stepping back. Over the past year, we've watched teacher attendance more than double, seen toilets built that changed whether girls came to school at all, and heard from children who found their voice through music and craft, not textbooks. That's the kind of change we want our name attached to. This is just the first year. We're already planning how we deepen this partnership through 2026 and 2027," said Rajani Jalan, who oversees HR and CSR at mPokket. "None of this would exist at this scale without mPokket. A hundred schools, twelve districts, thousands of children learning skills rooted in their own soil, this only happened because mPokket chose to stand behind it fully, from the first school we onboarded to the last toilet block we built. They didn't just fund a programme, they backed a belief: that rural India's children don't need to leave their roots behind to build a future. We are grateful for a partner who saw that vision and made it real," said Mukti Gupta, Founder, Help Us Help Them (HUHT).