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Our Journey To The Stars

Empowering lives of 200+ women team members and 5000 children so far!
Our growth story continues…

Our Story

We were reflecting to see how far we have come and this would stay incomplete without sharing it with you.
Our journey has been a roller coaster ride… challenging yet exciting and truly satisfying! There were days when we felt anxious whether it would all come together and then there were days when we felt really proud about ourselves!

Come with us as we take you through our roller coaster ride the JUMPSTART way!

JUMPSTART is here to revolutionize education to make better humans of the future!
It all started in 2009; 13 years already to this revolution, though it just feels like yesterday to us!
We were excited and a little anxious on how it will all eventually work out! However, there was one constant feeling of “being responsible” towards the impact we would create on children who eventually would be our future…

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Feeling responsible towards shaping their lives

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Feeling responsible towards parents who put trust in us

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Feeling responsible towards the team who would join us to support our vision

This kept us motivated and still motivates us to keep moving ahead to spread goodness to as many children as we can.

We know that every child is unique, special and different. We are here to create an environment and craft experiences where children can flourish and preserve their uniqueness.
The journey started with 3 children in 2009. Yes! You read that right… ONLY 3 children; 5 team members to take care of 3 children! Swine flu and the fear of sending children was a threat in 2009. “How would we grow” was a thought that kept us restless.
“The attitude” that you carry when you are restless defines your future. To reflect back, the only inner drive we had was to keep evolving, thrive on challenges, keep trying new things and embrace failure as an opportunity to learn.This attitude of “keep evolving” keeps us going till date! Wouldn’t have known then that we would come so far..

There was a day during 2009 when the entire team was present and none of the 3 children were present. We still vividly remember that day! We do not ever want that day to come again. The most dreadful of all thoughts is a school without any children present. As we evolved; we grew from 3 to 25 children in 2010. Every child getting enrolled was a moment of celebration as that was an opportunity to impact children with meaningful learning experiences. Every child learning was a moment of triumph for us.

In that same year along with preschool, we ventured into daycare. This was an important milestone. We evolved the daycare into a Learning Center defying the typical notion of how a childcare functions. A day at the Learning Center was neatly planned with different activities where the child was constantly learning and evolving. Little did we know that we would start exclusive childcares in corporate parks. Our learning was never to wait for the “right time”. It never will be; start exactly where you are right now with whatever resources you have. Keep moving ahead. With the realization that there is “limitless” scope to realize the potential we have within all of us… all we did was “keep moving ahead”.

The first center that we started impacted the lives of more than 100 children. Words can’t justify the happiness we experienced to see the impact becoming bigger and better. This inspired us to keep spreading goodness to more children by opening new centers in newer places.

Small things woven together over time makes it look like a big thing and a sudden transformation. Our small little things were the start of our Parent Toddler Program for parents and toddlers to bond with each other even before the child enters preschool. We started with our Early Childhood Expert Program that prepares interested individuals to start their career in teaching or early years. The awards and recognition motivated us to feel all the more responsible towards our journey of making better humans. It was never about becoming better than others but becoming better than your old self; and thus the quest to constantly evolve! Our journey is filled with these priceless, small moments. For us the journey matters and not the outcome!

If you ask us what makes JUMPSTART special is it’s “team”… a strong motivated team of women! Team JUMPSTART is what makes this revolution happen. We have always believed that alone we can do so little but together we can do so much more. If everyone is moving ahead; then success takes care of itself. Everyone who was part of the JUMPSTART journey earlier and everyone who is a part of it now… each of them have contributed in their own ways to make what JUMPSTART it is today! We were aware of the fact that subject knowledge, expertise, talent and skills can take us ahead but it would only be teamwork that will allow us to accomplish the extraordinary. Humongous effort has always gone in upskilling the team every month. The amount of feedback given for every team member to evolve and become better ensures that we have educators who are chiseled to give their best.
The pertinent question for the team has always been…
If not us, who?
If not now, when ?
We live by this “Today is the first day of the rest of your life to make that impact!”

March 2020 is unforgettable in many ways for all of us. Isn’t it? We still vividly remember the 14th of March 2020 when we suddenly and spontaneously had to declare all the centers to be shut because of the threat of the COVID 19 pandemic. Our academic year 2019-20 was not even over yet. We were all preparing for the graduation and report card day scheduled for the last week of March 2020. The feeling of helplessness that we experienced for not even properly wishing a goodbye to our children with the schools abruptly shutting the physical premise is still vivid in our memories.

There were too many feelings at one time including uncertainty which became uncomfortable. The uncertainty about till when will this continue, how do we continue delivering world class education and how do we help the parents and the team without the physical premises being operational was daunting. We admit… what initially felt like a long vacation turned into a feeling of frustration and helplessness. However we soon realized that growth is not built on success but on failures and frustration. When we started feeling that we were failing is when we realized that this is our opportunity to begin again…all over again… in a totally new world!

The future is unknown and so is your potential. All dreams are within reach if you continue moving towards them. Physical schools have resumed. We are in full action and we need help, support and partners with the right attitude to take that leap.

Come join us and be part of our story!

As a parent: Let your child be part of any of our programs like Parent Toddler for children from 6 months to 2 years, Preschool from 18 months to 6 years, Learning Center from 6 months to 8 years or any of our other activities like summer camps, activity classes etc.
As a team member: You can also join our DREAM TEAM as an educator or with an administrative role
As a goodness partner: You can partner with us to spread goodness to more children at newer places by taking our franchise
As a well wisher: You can help us reach out to more number of people by liking, sharing, commenting on our posts or letting other parents know about us
We are not here to stop learning as there is so much more that this journey is here for us to teach!
We are not here to stop until we are proud!