REACH, an acronym for Reaffirming Equity, Access, Capacity and Humanism, is an initiative that was created at LSR with support from the Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access (FAEA) in August 2002. Through REACH we seek to address the challenge of building an informed and engaged community by preserving the multihued canvas of coexistence in society. REACH is a change agent that empowers students with social and economic disadvantages by creating access and opportunities for them.

By giving scholarships to students with potential and engaging in activities that are experiential and trans-disciplinary in nature like workshops, training programmes and field trips, REACH offers a dialogue-oriented, liberating and heterogeneously sourced palette of activities to spur young minds on in their quest to excel while nourishing the notion of leadership.

It brings to a space of privilege the rich experiences of the triumph and challenges of people who have broken barriers of sex, race, caste and social location to access the best in education.

REACH attempts to prepare students to occupy mantles of leadership in society. It seeks to nurture the  quest for excellence by empowering them with skills required to face the challenges of the society. The emphasis has been on the creation of opportunities of excellence. However,  excellence  in education cannot be circumscribed and defined in a truncated reality, particularly when the reality is a non homogenous society. A sense of community is also essential, particularly in a society such as ours where we have long assumed that the divisions between groups of people, based on caste, class, origin, language and occupations are more real than our common humanity.

REACH based on the principle of affirmative action, has attempted to challenge these assumptions through its philosophy and approach that is grounded in the principle of inclusion and its conviction that ultimate unity can be encouraged only through respect and celebration of diversity